Human-rights rhetoric actively helped legitimize deepening global inequality.

Evidence

LSF went further than most, however, in directly entering the economic fray to prosecute an argument against postcolonial economic equality and in favour of a liberal economy. In doing so, it lent its moral prestige to the neoliberal counterattack on the struggle for postcolonial economic justice, and became complicit in the dramatic deepening of inequality that has been its consequence. Moreover, it helped to shape a distinctively neoliberal human rights discourse, in which civil and political rights are essential aspects of the institutional structure necessary to facilitate a liberal market order. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 381

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in market ethics debates and to Moyn’s broader claims about human rights legitimating market order. — connects to: Neoliberal human rights discourse entailed a duty to spread capitalism globally — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 283; Neoliberals actively shaped the postwar human rights discourse that later legitimized markets — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 40; Human-rights rhetoric can relocate redress authority toward imperial overseers (+5 more)
• SEED: Seed for an essay tracing how humanitarian NGOs lent moral cover to austerity regimes — parallel to the immodesty moral panics article in structure.

Broader Connections

• Human rights language was mobilized against demands for postcolonial economic redistribution. #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 379
• Neoliberal human rights discourse entailed a duty to spread capitalism globally #expands (0.82) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 283
• Neoliberals framed human rights as a tool to enforce global standards protecting private capital #expands (0.82)
• Neoliberals actively shaped the postwar human rights discourse that later legitimized markets #expands (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 40
• Humanitarian founders actively pioneered a distinctly neoliberal human rights discourse #expands (0.78) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 439
• Human-rights rhetoric can relocate redress authority toward imperial overseers #expands (0.75)