For many on the left, individual action is a silly, futile focus if we want to make any meaningful social change; the community or all society requires change (even by force) in order for real progress to be made.

-Arthur Brooks

"Government," Wilson wrote approvingly in his magnum opus, "The State," "does now whatever experience permits or the times demand."

  "No doubt," he wrote elsewhere, taking dead aim at the Declaration of Independence, "a lot of nonsense has been talked about the inalienable rights of the individual, and a great deal that was mere vague sentiment and pleasing speculation has been put forward as fundamental principle."

-Jonah Goldberg

Simply consider this revealing extract sent to me, again, in the wake of The Independent article: (emphasis theirs): “I’m angry at YOU for giving Bible thumpers ‘proof’ that Trans is a ‘choice’ you clueless fuckmaggot.”

  Notwithstanding the fact that I never received any abuse from Christians whilst living as Sarah and irrespective of such incidents as being accosted by a group of young Muslim men exiting an Eid celebration in Birmingham, there’s something even more erroneous and disconcerting revealed about liberal orthodoxy in the above statement.

  Because they disdain individuality in favor of blind collectivism, activist liberals are unable to hear things in isolation.

-Will Franken, What Life As A Transgender Woman Taught Me About Progressives

"[W]e must demand that the individual shall be willing to lose the sense of personal achievement, and shall be content to realize his activity only in connection to the activity of the many," declared the progressive social activist Jane Addams.

-Jonah Goldberg

"No doubt, a lot of nonsense has been talked about the inalienable rights of the individual, and a great deal that was mere vague sentiment and pleasing speculation has been put forward as fundamental principle."

"Individualism allows the dominant group to claim everyone has equal opportunity and that success is possible through hard work."

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"This conversation about pushing off our own wellbeing onto the individual is part of these 1980s Reagan era policies that again try to move that structural obligation of a system and this social safety net onto the individual instead of thinking that there should be social supports that also help me to subsidize my food costs.

  As Minogue so eloquently wrote, “liberalism is goodwill turned doctrinaire; it is philanthropy organized to be efficient.”

  This standardization requires abstraction, treating humans not as real beings but “generic men” that can be conveniently put into the camp of “oppressors” or “victims.”

  In the fall of 2020 I started advocating openly for academic freedom and merit-based evaluations. I recorded some short YouTube videos in which I argued for the importance of treating each person as an individual worthy of dignity and respect.

  In an academic context, that means giving everyone a fair and equal opportunity when they apply for a position as well as allowing them to express their opinions openly, even if you disagree with them.

  As a result, I was immediately targeted for cancellation, primarily by a group of graduate students in my department.

“Eugenics was anti-individualistic; it promised efficiency; it required expertise, and it was founded on the authority of science.”

  Equally important, “biological ideas,” Leonard writes, gave progressive reformers “a conceptual scheme capable of accommodating the great contradiction at the heart of Progressive Era reform -- its view of the poor as victims deserving state uplift and as threats requiring state restraint.”

  They could feel sorry for impoverished Americans while trying to restrict their influence and limit their numbers.

-Virginia Postrel, "Progressives Must Confront Their Racist Roots"