Scuttlebutt on Boing Boing is that Warriors for Ignorance Innocence is a Dominionist front; dominionists are a collection of interrelated groups based largely on the writings and philosophy of R.J. Rushdoony in the 50s and 60s, who advocated a "return to" a government based on "Biblical" principles, which should read instead the creation of a government based on authoritarian Protestant fundamentalist dogma. Under these ideals, pagans, homosexuals, Catholics, atheists, etc. all convert to the state church or are executed. This is nothing that dozens of groups of crazies don't already think (just change the name of the One True Pure Inner Circle); what sets dominionists apart is their strategies and organization. Orcinus has written quite a bit in the past about dominionists, as well as other hate groups.
The guideline I use to decide whether a crusade is probably well-intentioned (if not necessarily wise, though sometimes they are) is that things like Megan's Law, taking a specific case and trying to find a general solution to problems like it, are actually concerned with the issues; whereas WforI's appeal to broad, unspecific, emotionally-charged buzzwords (OMG think of the children! without giving a single example of someone who has been harmed by LJ writings) are usually manipulative acts geared toward social control.
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Date: 2007-05-31 02:51 am (UTC)IgnoranceInnocence is a Dominionist front; dominionists are a collection of interrelated groups based largely on the writings and philosophy of R.J. Rushdoony in the 50s and 60s, who advocated a "return to" a government based on "Biblical" principles, which should read instead the creation of a government based on authoritarian Protestant fundamentalist dogma. Under these ideals, pagans, homosexuals, Catholics, atheists, etc. all convert to the state church or are executed. This is nothing that dozens of groups of crazies don't already think (just change the name of the One True Pure Inner Circle); what sets dominionists apart is their strategies and organization. Orcinus has written quite a bit in the past about dominionists, as well as other hate groups.The guideline I use to decide whether a crusade is probably well-intentioned (if not necessarily wise, though sometimes they are) is that things like Megan's Law, taking a specific case and trying to find a general solution to problems like it, are actually concerned with the issues; whereas WforI's appeal to broad, unspecific, emotionally-charged buzzwords (OMG think of the children! without giving a single example of someone who has been harmed by LJ writings) are usually manipulative acts geared toward social control.