How Social Justice Art and Literature Harms Real Social Justice - Part 1

Sun, 18 May 2025 16:57:38 +0000

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Social Justice attitudes have taken over art practice and discourse. Much of these are logically fallacious. Today, we dismantle the common Motte-and-Bailey arguments against any dissent towards the status quo, boxes we will inevitably find ourselves trapped in when uttering anything besides obsequious agreement: 'What’s wrong with social justice?', 'Don’t you care about the marginalized?', etc. Only then, may we return art to its true glory and speak meaningfully to real social justice.

This video was adapted from a lecture I gave to some first year students at the Savannah College of Art and Design to ward against potential brainwashing in academia.