All Noble Abolitionists!
Cant, Hypocrisy, Judging the Past, Robert P. George, Sanctimony, Slavery, Twitter
1/ I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have been abolitionists! They all would have bravely spoken out against slavery, and worked tirelessly against it.
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) July 2, 2020
3/ So I respond by saying that I will credit their claims if they can show evidence of the following: that in leading their lives today they have stood up for the rights of unpopular victims of injustice whose very humanity is denied, and where they have done so knowing:
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) July 2, 2020
5/ (5) that they would risk being denied valuable professional opportunities as a result of their moral witness. In short, my challenge is to show where they have at risk to themselves and their futures stood up for a cause that is unpopular in elite sectors of our culture today.
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) July 2, 2020
