Why Egalitarians Deny Atrocities - by Brian Chau

From the New World is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Let’s take a look at the extreme and transparent nature of the argument I’m responding to, which comes from a former Bernie Sanders spokeswoman. From their perspective, since accusations of mass rape as a weapon of war are “dehumanizing”, they could not possibly be true. She puts their lie of moral equality before the truth. You can see this by how her rhetoric is structured. She states upfront that their big lie depends on atrocity denial. Then, she immediately conclude that the atrocity should be downplayed, if not denied outright. We’re at the bottom of a slippery slope of desensitization, in which increasingly severe evils are normalized and the people who commit them are treated as the moral equals of ordinary men or women. Being the ones responsible, egalitarians recognize that this slope exists far more than the mainstream does. They admit

From the New World is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Let’s take a look at the extreme and transparent nature of the argument I’m responding to, which comes from a former Bernie Sanders spokeswoman. From their perspective, since accusations of mass rape as a weapon of war are “dehumanizing”, they could not possibly be true. She puts their lie of moral equality before the truth. You can see this by how her rhetoric is structured. She states upfront that their big lie depends on atrocity denial. Then, she imme