I was reading about Matthew Hopkins, the witchfinder general and the times and place he lived in, and the atmosphere of Puritan England reminded me a lot of the the Social Justice Warrior climate we are living in today.
It was full of the same purity tests, literal witch hunts, but also people in general loving to hop on bandwagons in condemning their own family and neighbours for any straying away from zealous puritan ideals.
The iconoclasm and insane desire to destroy the past was also in evidence too. Quite literally whitewashing history by painting over medieval scenes from the bible that had existed for centuries on church walls because to even tolerate their continued existance was to venerate the old corruption and idoloatry of the Catholic church that England had belonged to only 100 years before.
“I was reading about Matthew Hopkins, the witchfinder general and the times and place he lived in, and the atmosphere of Puritan England reminded me a lot of the the Social Justice Warrior climate we are living in today.”
Who wrote what you were reading?