Why Latter-day Saints should be Concerned about Social Justice Ideology - by Rebecca Taylor
M any people who support the current social justice movement are drawn to it for deeply moral reasons, including a sense of compassion and a desire for fairness and justice. They are concerned with real racial problems such as police brutality, racial profiling, disparities in incarceration rates, and related issues. They feel horror and grief, as we all should, over our nation’s history of slavery, racial violence, and discrimination. They see other troubling forms of discrimination in addition to racism, such as sexism in the workplace, bullying due to sexual and gender identity, and so on. Critical social justice ideology is the worldview presented as the one true way to interpret these concerns. Informed by critical theory and postmodernism—ideas that developed in academia and then spilled out into society at large—this ideology is in opposition to traditional theory, which uses reason and logic to interpret the world, build on past progress, and address problems. Cert...
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