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The Michael Shermer Show · 2026-06-03 · 59 min · 9,142 words

From Equality to Equity: How Social Justice Becomes Ideology

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I wanted to ask you about victimhood status. You know, what is the psychology? How would you treat a client that said, you know, I'm a victim. I'm female or black or gay or whatever my intersexual bullet points are, and this is why my life is not going well, but they seem to insist that it must be true almost as if they like being a victim. It's weird, I don't know what to make of that.

You mentioned psychoanalysis being Somewhat corrupted by anti Zionism, anti Semitism. That's quite ironic since Freud was Jewish. You know, and there's there's a strong Jewish element in the origins of psychoanalysis. What's going on there?

Why are they doing that? Well, I think there's a confluence of many things that happened. Like I said, when the George Floyd Black Lives Matter movement really took off and there was so called racial reckoning in the States, it's actually Quite troubling to hear some of the developments, whether it be in social work, whether it be in psychology, it affects training, formal education at the graduate level, it affects codes of ethics, it affects degree, accreditation of programs, and licensure in some cases. If you're being taught in graduate school, let's say, that you must have an anti-racist lens in the way you work and what

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