from RT:

Progessive thinkers of the recent past are starting to appear reactionary, as the emergent radical “liberals” use university campuses and social media to intolerantly shout down any dissent.

If we park Covid-19 for a moment, we will be able to identify another spreading virus that is just as damaging to us all and likely to have equally long-lasting consequences.

The shrill voices of those oh-so-liberal that they are now illiberal will attempt to drown out any dissent at the plinths and pedestals of historical statues and monuments. This is the new hyper-liberalism, and it’s spreading rapidly.

If you disagree you are wrong. And if you continue to disagree then they will shout and shout and shout until you agree with them. In action, it might manifest itself in the decapitation of a bronze statue of some historic entrepreneur who profited from the once-fashionable business of slave trade. Or it might be the bullying of an avowed feminist who refuses to espouse the most radical ideas of the ‘trans community’.

While claiming the mantle of the new social progressives, these hyper-liberals are nothing of the sort. They despise the progressives who preceded them as too soft, not radical enough, reactionary old fogies with no idea.

This battle largely plays out on social media, totally unnoticed by many of us, but all-consuming to those involved as they bait, troll, and egg each other on, in a battle for the crown of righteousness.

So intolerant, so self-righteous, just so goddamned shouty!

The British philosopher John Gray identified this new hyper-liberalism as a cult a few years back.

He suggested that the economic pressures of globalisation had given rise to an insecure middle class, and on university campuses, many academics live on the fringes of the middle class but have no grounding in the world outside their own bubble – their friends are academics, they have no connection with the working classes of society – and this morphs into an attitude of “bourgeois careerism with virtue-signalling self-righteousness.”

And this is all passed on to their students. The self-righteousness is particularly dangerous to true liberalism.

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