The French thinker Simone Weil (1909-1943) was radical, but not in the way that most think of that word today. She was on the side of the oppressed—of those who are “afflicted,” to use her preferred term—but she rejected the typical notions of victimhood and rights that liberals offer to help. She saw in every attempt by liberals to help the oppressed a cynical motive—and in our time, so dominated by performative radical liberalism, her skeptical eye is what we need. She knew that whenever liberals were most puffed up about improving the world, they were in fact at their most devious.
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Great article