In the case of the Critical Social Justice ideology, the mendacity of the equation isn’t even what matters. As James Lindsay puts it, the real question is ‘whose specific identity group interests are served by accepting that two plus two equals four?’ According to this view, ‘if saying two plus two equals four predominately serves white, Western male interests, that statement itself is political and politically problematic and should therefore be treated with suspicion, maybe dismantled, decolonized, or banned’. Reality is not, and has never been, the point.
