Particularly frustrating that so many well-meaning, progressive people seem to define racism purely in terms of attitudes and language rather than structural economic forces. You can’t solve this by yelling at people for using problematic language on Twitter. But that stuff sucks up such a huge portion of the…
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Very well put.
I think this is just right. The suburban ideal of “a lawn for every home” is the worst of both worlds - neither the aesthetically pleasing and useful reality of usable open space or the value of residential density. Instead you have all of this water-hungry small plots of grass that fulfill little other than to…
Imagine fixating on someone so much and yet being too afraid to confront them under your real name.
Yeah I’m less concerned with these whackadoos than I am with the number of progressives online who are celebrating this development. The tweets about it are very disturbing.
This attitude - submitting people to abuses like castration or rape threats because they themselves are abusers - is just law and order conservatism. There’s nothing remotely progressive about it. Progressives used to understand that inflicting evil on evil people does not make you good; it just drags you down with…
Threatening to rape people and threatening to castrate them are incompatible with any kind of moral authority. The idea that those things can be made good by circumstance just shows how far things have fallen.
I’m sure the people calling for castration and camo-clad assault rifle enthusiasts will act only as a force for good.
Being a reader is a lonely enough habit without people insisting we don’t exist.
Why do you go through life drawing these broad conclusions from other people’s reading habits? What’s to you?
What do you care what other people read? Why are you invested in that?
I agree. For the record, I’m a leftist.
But in the era of the internet, where all publishing platforms inevitably run through private intermediaries, your message can be effectively shut down. That’s true because not only are services like Youtube privately held, so are hosting companies that let you set up your own site. So private entities themselves can…
Yes, yes, I know - you learned all of your political philosophy on Tumblr in the past 3 years and are now an expert on all political questions.
I know that this notion that there are no impediments to speech other than governmental interference has become progressive boilerplate, but it’s completely untrue and ahistorical. Both the history of law and the history of philosophy show that these questions are in fact massively complicated, and have always been…
Did you read what I wrote? I in fact agree that, despite the recent unthinking assumption, non-governmental entities can meaningfully obstruct free expression, and that even if they aren’t legally bound to protect it, private entities should respect a norm of free speech, because it’s really hard for a democracy to…
You seem to be taking for granted that this is censorship when there is lots of room for disagreement on that
I really hate the progressive tendency to put the word censorship in scare quotes, these days, as though there aren’t any meaningful threats to the norms of free expression that are necessary to make a pluralistic democracy work. Anyone who’s familiar with the history of this country knows those threats have been very…