Deference to authority enabled liberals to tolerate the war

Evidence

I did not like the idea of the war, but I told myself that those great wise men, who were going to end racism and poverty, must know what they were doing—they must know things I, like any ordinary citizen, could not possibly know; things that made fighting this war, which seemed so pointless and needlessly destructive, a necessary thing to do. It was precisely this sort of passive deference to (white, male, middle-aged) authority, and sense of separation from and inadequacy to decision-making, that the sixties radicalism of participatory democracy and empowerment of minorities and women challenged. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 694

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Liberal rights discourse has historically justified rather than opposed empire — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 72; Liberal rights discourse has historically been used to justify imperial domination and war.

Broader Connections

• Liberal rights discourse has historically been used to justify imperial domination and war. #corroborates (0.85)
• Liberal rights discourse has historically justified rather than opposed empire #corroborates (0.82) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 72