First we must define:
Honor Culture
The honor cultures of many traditional societies valued bravery above all else, and in these societies people needed to stand up for themselves, often by engaging in violence, to demonstrate they weren’t cowards and wouldn’t let others take advantage of them or insult them. A duel over an insult, which seems so strange to most of us, made sense in this context.
Dignity culture
It became more important to recognize one’s own and others’ inherent worth, so reputations weren’t so important. People came to believe they should let most insults stand, and that they should rely on the legal system for solving more serious disputes. Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.
Now for Social Justice Culture
Social justice culture is a moral culture, similar in some ways and different in others to other Honor and Dignity moral cultures. A moral framework concerned primarily with documenting and fighting oppression.
It’s also a political ideology, like Marxism or liberalism. But is social justice culture also a religion, like Christianity or Islam? It depends on how we define it.
Social justice culture is similar to honor culture in that people might be concerned even with small slights and insults (microaggressions) that would be ignored by people in a dignity culture, but it’s similar to dignity culture in that people often appeal to authorities and other third parties rather than handling the slights themselves.
That the Social Justice culturist are usually sincere doesn’t mean that they’re right. I have been writing for some time about the threats the new culture poses to free speech and due process. But those who are concerned about problems arising from the new culture would do well to understand that these problems don’t come because people just haven’t learned how to be adults, or how to live in the real world. Problems that arise come from the culture’s elevation of social justice concerns above all else and from the interpretation of nearly all human interaction and all social institutions in terms of oppression and victimhood.
It is important to note in this context that people immersed in different moral cultures commonly find each other’s behavior offensive or incomprehensible.
https://quillette.com/2020/07/20/what-the-right-gets-wrong-about-social-justice-culture/
A couple of things stand out from this writing
people immersed in different moral cultures commonly find each other’s behavior offensive, no shit.
Social Justice Culture is like Honor culture in that any little insult becomes some huge issue resulting in triggered butthurtness. the snowflakes.
Social Justice concerns, elevate above all else, even free speech and liberties. This is a very dangerous idea.
Social Justice culture encompasses victimhood culture, the victim narcissist that builds special status from victimhood
We all want to be special, just some use their victimhood to elevate their status. This is definitely a trait not looked on as favorable in Dignity culture. It's seen as weak and abusive. We all want a little sympathy but using your victimhood as a tool is just wrong.
Societies that embrace Honor Culture or Social Justice Culture where slights are overblown are no cultures of harmony.
