The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

by Andrew Doyle

today’s ‘Antifa’ agitators have expanded the definition of ‘fascism’ to such an extent that they can excuse violence against anyone they happen to disagree with. This is why feminists who were protesting against California’s gender self-identification laws – which had been exploited by a known sexual predator to expose himself to women and children at the Wi Spa in Los Angeles – were mobbed by groups calling themselves ‘Antifa’. Here we can see clearly how the slippery word games of postmodernists can serve as a justification for needless violence. Whereas what Bray describes as ‘the construction of societal taboos against racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression that constitute the bedrocks of fascism’ was undoubtedly once necessary, this cannot possibly apply in today’s society where such taboos already exist. In other words, the core of Bray’s defence of anti-fascist violence rests upon the belief that the progress of civil rights and social liberalism has been negligible – or, at the very least, that fascism continues to operate as a mainstream force