Its honestly a pretty easy thing to define even, because its usually just the difference between malice and ignorance. Its only relevant whatsoever when the excuse of "these people are retarded" is enough to defuse the anger at most of what they are doing. Something like circumcision making an iota of sense in a sweaty, desert culture centuries before hygiene became kinda better to prevent much worse conditions, but being nothing but evil without those factors combined.
Problem is that 99% of the people using it are the type of Lefties that would never dare to say the very losers they are describing are ignorant idiots, so it becomes a long convoluted chain of excuses and jumping through hoops to avoid sounding bigoted.
Problem is that 99% of the people using it are the type of Lefties that would never dare to say the very losers they are describing are ignorant idiots
Actually, I mostly hear it from the pro-Israel crowd; it's one of their buzzwords, even though they don't seem to know what it means. Ironically, they're engaging in 'moral relativism' when they accuse their opponents of that. "Murder is bad, whether Hamas or the IDF does it" is not morally relativistic. "Israel murdering men, women, and children is fine, because we've a Democracy™" actually is relativistic.
They seem to think "moral relativism" is just drawing any sort of moral parallel. When it's kind of the opposite. To this group, comparing Israel and anyone, without relativism...that's the real moral relativism. Holding Israel to the same standard as anyone else, that's the real relativism.
Actually, I mostly hear it from the pro-Israel crowd
Ah, I've been able to mostly avoid getting into this particular kerfluffle so I was talking general based on the last decade or so with all SJWs. Where it was meant to excuse the Arabs and Africans for being literally barbarians.
Its honestly a pretty easy thing to define even, because its usually just the difference between malice and ignorance. Its only relevant whatsoever when the excuse of "these people are retarded" is enough to defuse the anger at most of what they are doing. Something like circumcision making an iota of sense in a sweaty, desert culture centuries before hygiene became kinda better to prevent much worse conditions, but being nothing but evil without those factors combined.
Problem is that 99% of the people using it are the type of Lefties that would never dare to say the very losers they are describing are ignorant idiots, so it becomes a long convoluted chain of excuses and jumping through hoops to avoid sounding bigoted.
Actually, I mostly hear it from the pro-Israel crowd; it's one of their buzzwords, even though they don't seem to know what it means. Ironically, they're engaging in 'moral relativism' when they accuse their opponents of that. "Murder is bad, whether Hamas or the IDF does it" is not morally relativistic. "Israel murdering men, women, and children is fine, because we've a Democracy™" actually is relativistic.
They seem to think "moral relativism" is just drawing any sort of moral parallel. When it's kind of the opposite. To this group, comparing Israel and anyone, without relativism...that's the real moral relativism. Holding Israel to the same standard as anyone else, that's the real relativism.
Ah, I've been able to mostly avoid getting into this particular kerfluffle so I was talking general based on the last decade or so with all SJWs. Where it was meant to excuse the Arabs and Africans for being literally barbarians.