The New Moralities of British ‘Social Justice’
Under 35s tend to see social media news as very serious – as long as it’s about human rights – or else not serious at all. Over 35s tend to see it as baffling and very serious, but also not serious at all if the topic appears light to them.
While an older person might not see an eating disorder post as particularly crucial (‘just eat a meal, girl’), younger ‘digital natives’ have been told that this is the moral meat of life itself. This feeds into a new value system which is as far from Abrahamic moralism as is atheism.
Get Your Allegation in First
Words can now be ‘non-crime hate incidents’, their wielders sacked, cancelled, fined or imprisoned. If you are being harassed by people reporting your social media use, is there any comeback? This entirely depends on who gets their allegation in first. In tandem with the world becoming statistically less violent – possibly due to less lead and mercury in the water and air (see Steven Pinker) – people are increasingly turning to rhetoric, allegation, offence and cancellation to silence ‘the other side’.
The sub-postmasters confronted by a Priest
The Postmasters scandal in the UK, in which more than 700 sub-postmasters were found to have been falsely accused due to Fujitsu’s Horizon software, about which the authorities involved knew (many going to prison, some suicides) and nu-safety-ism go hand in hand here. If something or someone is too expensive or rich to fail, any excuse will be found not to point the finger, even when it is clear to everyone where the system failure lies.
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