Rod Dreher on Social Justice Warriors

Dreher says:

In radicalizing the broader class of elites, social justice warriors (SJWs) are playing a similar historic role to the Bolsheviks in prerevolutionary Russia. SJW ranks are full of middle-class, secular, educated people wracked by guilt and anxiety over their own privilege, alienated from their own traditions, and desperate to identify with something, or someone, to give them a sense of wholeness and purpose. For them, the ideology of social justice--as defined not by church teaching but by critical theorists in the academy--functions as a pseudoreligion. Far from being confined to campuses and dry intellectual journals, SJW ideals are transforming elite institutions and networks of power and influence.

Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents. New York City, NY: Sentinel. 2020, p. 42.