''See also:'' [[Argument from beauty]] and [[Secular left]]
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Author [[John C. Wright (author)|John C. Wright]] wrote in his 2014 essay ''How We’ve Been Robbed of Beauty by the [[Leftist|Left]]'':
{{cquote|There is no discussion of it because by convincing the public that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the Left has placed it beyond the realm of discussion. According to the Left, beauty is a matter of taste, and arbitrary taste at that. There is no discussion of taste because to give reasons to prefer tasteful to tasteless things is elitist, nasty, uncouth and inappropriate. To have taste implies that some cultures produce more works of art and better than others, and this raises the uncomfortable possibility that love of beauty is Eurocentric, or even racist. To admire beauty has become a hate crime.