Kulturkampf

[BIONIC]

User Banned (Permanent): Using banned gif (because it hurts the feefees of a Floridian modmin) in a sensitive thread

[HaughtyFrank]

Guys, it's a climate emergency!!!

I can be swayed!

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Pretty sure they're AI, but who cares...

What gave it away was that the tweet said she's talking about climate change. Girl is a 100% about Palestine now

[Potato]

https://theconversation.com/what-happens-when-the-progressive-idea-of-cultural-safety-turns-on-itself-264042

What happens when the progressive idea of cultural ‘safety’ turns on itself?

While psychological safety is a general norm protecting all parties, the more recent safe-speech norms protect specific marginalised groups. They aim to push back against larger systemic forces like racism or misogyny that would otherwise render those groups oppressed or unsafe. In some cases, the prioritisation of safety has led to deplatforming of speakers at universities.

With this special focus on oppressed minorities and heightened sensitivity to speech’s negative impacts, applying these norms has become a familiar part of progressive social justice efforts (sometimes pejoratively called “wokism”). Now, conservatives and others are employing the language of cultural safety to close down discussion of topics such as the war in Gaza.

Supporters of safe-speech norms might respond in different ways to these objections. One response might be that safety doesn’t intrude very much on dialogue anyway (at least, not on the type of dialogue worth having). Another response might be to challenge the value of public debate itself, seeing any system that does not explicitly work to support the marginalised as inherently oppressive.

In order to protect and empower specific marginalised groups, safe-speech norms both support and restrain speech. So long as the views of these protected groups are relatively aligned with each other, these norms work coherently. The speech that is being prohibited doesn’t overlap with the speech that is being protected.

But what happens when members of two marginalised groups have stridently opposed views and the words they use to decry injustice are called unsafe by their opponents? Once this happens, the speech that one group needs to be protected is the same speech that the other group needs prohibited.

Perhaps it was inevitable that the internal contradictions of safe-speech norms would eventually create such problems. In Australia, like many countries, this was triggered by the October 7 Hamas atrocity and Israel’s unrelenting and brutal military response. Jews and Palestinians are both vulnerable minorities who face the well known bigotries of antisemitism and Islamophobia respectively. They both can reasonably demand the protection of safe-speech norms.

Perhaps the time has come to acknowledge that safe speech norms were never as straightforward or innocuous as they first appeared. They require a form of censorship that not only involves choosing political sides, but inevitably making fine-grained judgements between which opposing minority deserves protection at the expense of the other.

Benji, don't cum.

[Polident]

Benji, don't cum.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Nut's will be busted. Loads will be blown.

[benji]

https://theconversation.com/what-happens-when-the-progressive-idea-of-cultural-safety-turns-on-itself-264042

Perhaps the time has come to acknowledge that safe speech norms were never as straightforward or innocuous as they first appeared. They require a form of censorship that not only involves choosing political sides, but inevitably making fine-grained judgements between which opposing minority deserves protection at the expense of the other.

This guy "both siding" things is making me unsafe. Perfect example of why some people shouldn't have a platform to speak.

[Alpacx]

[HaughtyFrank]

[Nintex]

Those women don't look very fertile

[HaughtyFrank]

[Alpacx]

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Ugmos deserves a voice too, bigot.

[HaughtyFrank]

[benji]

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devine
divided

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

(Burkino Faso recently outlawed homosexuality)

[Potato]

(Burkino Faso recently outlawed homosexuality)

That second tweet says something...I'm not sure what though.

[benji]

Incredible thread:

[Uncle]

That second tweet says something...I'm not sure what though.

[HaughtyFrank]

[HaughtyFrank]

Of course 

[NekoFever]

Guys help I’m in London and have been stabbed twice, forcibly converted to Islam and there are no gay people left.

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Jk only rich white people can afford the £15 cocktails

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

The big picture: The rising number of surveillance cameras in public spaces, including on Charlotte's light rail, has become a big accelerant in these cases.

The video is easily shared or leaked, and can instantly pollinate across social media — a visual counterpoint to statistics showing crime decreases.

[Alpacx]

The big picture: The rising number of surveillance cameras in public spaces, including on Charlotte's light rail, has become a big accelerant in these cases.

The video is easily shared or leaked, and can instantly pollinate across social media — a visual counterpoint to statistics showing crime decreases.

[HaughtyFrank]

Fun switchup from how incredibly confident he is to "oh well, I didn't write that part."

[Alpacx]

Fun switchup from how incredibly confident he is to "oh well, I didn't write that part."

Father of evidence-based medicine.

[benji]

[D3RANG3D]

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[Nintex]

This is a rollercoaster