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Please don't equate human rights activism to a religious movement.
by gkop 5y ago
Please don't equate human rights activism to a religious movement.
- christophilus 5y agoI’ve had two particularly obnoxious coworkers in my career. One on the left and one on the right. Their behavior was indistinguishable from that of a religious zealot. They were extremely unpleasant people, and no one should have to listen to them while on the clock. I didn’t say anything about human rights activism. I drew a parallel between religious zealotry and political zealotry in the workplace that I have personally experienced. And the parallel is perfectly apt.
- fighterpilot 5y agoHorseshoe theory of political orientation. It's very true. Personality types of left and right wing zealots overlap tremendously (inclination towards authoritarianism etc)
- WesolyKubeczek 5y agoI always thought it’s more of a donut (call it a torus if you want to sound smart) than a horseshoe.
- fighterpilot 5y agoI like that label because it has a "stupid" connotation to it.
- kalleboo 5y agoReligious evangelists believe they are literally saving your soul.
- CRConrad 5y agoWhich is part of what makes them annoying as hell. If they want to do that, let them first prove -- to my intellectual satisfaction, not theirs -- that I have a "soul" to be "saved" in the first place.
- 8note 5y agoI'd lean that they are equivalent. Both are all about espousing what the right way to be a human is, and more specifically have strong opinions about the wrong way to be a human
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoWhy not?
- neartheplain 5y agoHistorically, religion and human rights activism are closely conjoined. Anthropologically, religious proselytization and ideological activism are nearly indistinguishable phenomena.