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The Twitter-incited mob that shut down last week\u2019s Donald Trump rally at the University of Illinois\u2019 Chicago pavilion was the first skirmish in what is shaping up to be a civil war between a political Left that has lost its mind and a political Right that has lost its mind and its soul. The tensions between these two camps are so contorted and dishonest that even trying to unpack the issues puts the un-packer in jeopardy of being branded as one kind of thought-criminal or another.<\/p>\n

The Left has lost its mind in a climax of zealotry over the new religion of social justice, with its sacred \u201cvictims\u201d (blacks, LBGTQs, etc), its sacred tenets (\u201cdiversity,\u201d \u201cinclusion\u201d), and its endless charges of blasphemy (renamed \u201cmicro-aggressions\u201d) against heretics (\u201cracists,\u201d \u201chomophobes\u201d) who object to absolutist thought policing. This was nicely described by Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University in\u00a0a recent podcast with author Sam Harris<\/a>. (Skip to 1 hour 30 minutes in the long discussion.)<\/p>\n

The religion got started on the campuses, where social science careerists ginned up an elaborate doctrine to justify the self-importance of their new departments in so-called race, gender, and privilege studies \u2014 the main point of which was to create new categories of sacred victims suffering spiritual torments (\u201ctraumas\u201d) that could never be healed. These crypto-religious \u201cstudies\u201d led to a multiplication of demons that had to be exorcized by an equal multiplication of diversity deans and committees aimed at punishing blasphemies \u2014 such as arguing against affirmative action (\u201cracist\u201d), or wearing a Mexican sombrero at a tequila party (\u201ccultural appropriation\u201d + \u201cracist\u201d), which happened recently at posh Bowdoin College.<\/p>\n

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Bull Run The Twitter-incited mob that shut down last week\u2019s Donald Trump rally at the University of Illinois\u2019 Chicago pavilion was the first skirmish in what is shaping up to be a civil war between a political Left that has lost its mind and a political Right that has lost its mind and its soul. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3770,7844,449,6212,734],"class_list":["post-18819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chicago","tag-donald-trump","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-left-vs-right","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18822,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18819\/revisions\/18822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}