My “The Deep Theory behind Stifling Speech” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site:
“The point is not that poverty and injuries are not real and serious issues to grapple with. The point is that the same tactics are at work in the Trigger strategy — the explicit use of weakness, trauma, victimhood in order to put one’s perceived enemies off balance and to manipulate them.
It’s the difference between (1) I have a weakness, but I will hide it and/or fix it, and (2) I have a weakness, and I will cultivate it and use it against you. …
Read more here.
[Related: “Defending Free Speech Against Postmodernism” and my other articles at CHURCH and STATE.]