new morality

A new morality is emerging with the embrace of so-called critical theory regarding race and gender, which burst out of academia into media and corporate America.

Han posits an alternate way of encountering the Other, based “on the friendliness of the AND,” and a new morality in which timidity or recoil is replaced by genuine curiosity, and difference “is not determined by an ‘either/or’ but by an ‘as well as,’ not by contradiction or antagonism but mutual appropriation” — meaning that both appropriator and appropriated are changed, unlike in “colonial exploitation, which destroys the Other in favor of itself and of the Same.”

As the owner of a small business, I was surprised that David Von Drehle’s March 13 op-ed, “The new morality of doing business,” exhibited a lack of understanding of the purpose and governance of corporations.

Since 2013, the Mint has been recording its productions for archival purposes, and it’s making three of them available for free through Sunday: Harold Chapin’s “The New Morality,” Hazel Ellis’s “Women Without Men” and George Kelly’s “The Fatal Weakness.”

A 1978 Los Angeles Times article with the headline “Venereal Disease of New Morality: Sexual Sore Spot That’s Spreading” opened by describing two people with genital herpes so severe they required hospitalization and said that herpes was “roaring through parts of Orange County like an unwanted dinner guest.”