The Bigotry of Good Intentions: An Examination of the 2020 Social Justice Movement
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Several times in the past decade, but especially since 2020, we have increasingly heard phrases being thrown around like ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Defund the Police.’ Many who question the narrative around these terms are snared in a Kafka Trap: “A Kafka Trap is a fallacy where if someone denies being x it is taken as evidence that the person is x since someone who is x would deny being x. The name is derived from the novel The Trial by the Czech writer Franz Kafka. The reason this is fallacious is that it lumps together people who genuinely are not guilty of a perceived offense in with people who have committed the perceived offense and are trying to escape punishment.” -
The Bigotry of Good Intentions: An Examination of the 2020 Social Justice Movement
The Bigotry of Good Intentions: An…
The Bigotry of Good Intentions: An Examination of the 2020 Social Justice Movement
Several times in the past decade, but especially since 2020, we have increasingly heard phrases being thrown around like ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Defund the Police.’ Many who question the narrative around these terms are snared in a Kafka Trap: “A Kafka Trap is a fallacy where if someone denies being x it is taken as evidence that the person is x since someone who is x would deny being x. The name is derived from the novel The Trial by the Czech writer Franz Kafka. The reason this is fallacious is that it lumps together people who genuinely are not guilty of a perceived offense in with people who have committed the perceived offense and are trying to escape punishment.” -