Holier Than Thou – A New Atheistic, Liberal Puritanism

Social media, outrage and the birth of a new ‘I know what’s best for you’

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We live in a strange time. As a teenager in the early 2000’s a defining aspect of our lefty ideology was our inability to be shocked. We grew up on a cultural diet of South Park, Hip Hop and Bukowski books. We laughed at figures like Mary Whitehouse who seemed to be in a permanent state of outrage…