Democracy is the next identity politics
Despite Putin's claim that 'the liberal idea' has 'become obsolete', global reactions to his invasion of Ukraine are beginning to prove the opposite.
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TWENTY years ago, while standing in line at a Harvard cafeteria, I overheard one student say to another: "It is the moral equivalent of the Holocaust!" What could that be, I wondered? The Rwandan genocide? Cambodia's killing fields? South American juntas causing opponents to 'disappear' by throwing them into the ocean from helicopters?
Eventually, the answer came: Eating meat was the moral equivalent of the Holocaust, and Harvard bureaucrats the guilty party for not providing sufficient vegetarian and vegan meal options.
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