“Today our public life is dense with people desperate to slay imagined dragons.”
Because they don’t know how to mind their own damned business, whether it’s real or imagined.
Entire university academic departments have as their sole reason to exist a mission to manufacture and graduate as many aspiring Malcolm X and Angela Davis clones as they possibly can.
Problem is, there was only one Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Angela Davis back in the days when there was actual real and legitimate racial discrimination existing in this country and, even then, one of each was considered more than enough - even within the civil rights community
We now a massive glut of University educated , professionally accredited graduates with degrees in “Wannabe civil rights agitators and violent revolutionaries”! ( if you doubt it their campus SJW motto is “ by any means necessary” , and they mean it!. They are pretty explicit about the drastic and violent means they are willing to resort to, but they are a bit fuzzy on the end goals) , all of whom are looking for high paying jobs as Social Justice Warriors in the field of “1960s Protest Movement”
The problem is that unofficial discrimination based on race or gender has been legislated out of American society and has that form of racial discrimination has been replaced by officially sanctioned, government mandated affirmative action policies that provide preferential treatment to segments of society based on race or gender, which is itself a form of officially government sanctioned discrimination.
And today’s SJW are not the hero holy warriors to engaged on a just cause fighting injustice they see themselves as, instead they are feudal warlords fighting petty and selfish battles for power and the unjust loot and other spoils of war won for them by the true civil rights leaders of a long past era.
I’d say that they are not the Alexander the Greats they style themselves to be, but are instead the four petty and squabbling generals who divided Alexander’s Empire and then ran it into ruin. Ironically , of course, that historical reference would be lost on todays social justice warriors because they have destroyed the traditions of Western Culture and banned the teaching of its history on today’s University Campus’s.