“It’s the harm, not the intent, that matters,” she stated a matter-of-factly. I had already run into this latest woke moral platitude about harm vs. intent. In their 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff explain, “Some activists say that bigotry is only about impact, as they define impact. Intent is not even necessary. If a member of an identity group feels offended or oppressed by the action of another person, then…that other person is guilty of an act of bigotry.”
