Value neutrality and the individual's subjective experience

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Melanie Phillips in The Times of 1 Feb.

An excellent Comment on how Diversity & Inclusion have become uniformity of thought and exclusion.

I particularly like the last paragraphs (photo, sorry not online so no share token).

Interesting that the 'inviolability of every individual's experience' does not apply to every individual - eg the almond eyed pupil referred to in the article. She found Clanchy's description of her appropriate, but Twitterstorm ruled it racist.

A new form of 'untraditional behaviour' is being manipulated into existence, and what is now clearly 'bullying' is becoming the new 'social disapproval'.

Ultimately there is really no such thing as value neutrality, If we try and make that our value it manifests in very toxic ways.

There is also an idea that maybe this touches on, that in order to have a society that is very free in terms of laws and rules, it requires a lot of internal scaffolding and certain types of less official, but still meaningful, social expectations. Otherwise society can't function and a more authoritarian type of order needs to be imposed.

Value neutrality is the route to anarchy. And anarchy is a non-functioning society, soon taken over by the most aggressive.