In other words, when it comes to their activism, the new puritans have clearly imbibed from the fountainhead of poststructuralism and neo-Marxism. Just as Critical Theory seeks to expose the hidden sins embedded within texts, the religion of Critical Social Justice casts judgement on what it perceives to be ‘unconscious biases’, often based on feeble evidence. The promiscuous and unjustifiable accusations of ‘racism’, ‘homophobia’, ‘misogyny’ and even ‘fascism’ now so ubiquitous in the mainstream media and online discussion forums are not solely tactical manoeuvres. They are based on
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