Shame and Bully People

One thing I dislike about people who discuss social justice and other such ideas is that they are merely trying to shame and bully people into having a singular idea regarding certain complex social concepts. This runs extremely contrary to how I think the world should run. It feels very socially and emotionally tyrannical.

When I was younger I flirted with, entertained, and/or briefly adopted almost every horrible idea that I can think of … communism, race realism, imperialism, nationalism, statism, fundamentalist Christianity, traditional parenting, feminism, eugenics, hell … even genocide. I feel like taking every idea seriously was a way for my to truly figure out what I believe and why I believe it. I don’t feel I would have ever come to a deep understanding about myself and ideas without taking all of these ideas extremely seriously.

When someone justifies shame peddling and bullying people into a singular way of thinking, what I kind of hear is “All of that thinking you did for yourself when you were younger was horrible. You should’ve never considered ideas we don’t like, and if another 10 year old comes around thinking out of the box, I will bully them.” Since I want to teach my children to think for themselves … the people who are big into “social justice” seem like they fundamentally oppose my children and their freedom to come to their own conclusions.

I welcome diversity of ideas. People can want all the government they want, they can advocate things that drastically oppose what I believe … All I desire is for them to let me live how I want to live, and they can live how they want to live. Bigotry is kind of offensive … but forcing other people to live by someone else’s moral standards is what is truly offensive to me.