Intersectional activists who claim to be the heirs to the legacy of Martin Luther King are both self-aggrandising and misguided. Their hostility to free speech situates them unambiguously in opposing camps to the great civil rights luminaries. Their infatuation with group identity is incompatible with King’s famous dream of a future in which people ‘will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character’. This is because the religion of Critical Social Justice is fundamentally identitarian in nature and sees people less for their individual qualities and more for
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