Re:Orthodox Privilege
by jariel on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:12PM
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"And completely missing the boat on "right to free speech" != "right to no consequences""
This is the straw-man of all straw-mans.
---> Nobody is disagreeing with this statement.
There's 'no point to miss' because it's not even a point of discussion.
Everyone agrees that 'speech has consequences' and everyone agrees that someone 'calling a Black man the N-word in a derogatory manner' is terrible.
But we are arguing of people can dress up and play characters of another race or identity, or if we can mock people who do bad things by having characters do bad things or if we can literally use bad words while intellectually discussing bad words.
Or how much 'racism' is in the 'out group' using bigotry to attack the 'in group'.
Etc. etc..
The cancel culture arguments are at the margins of hate, not knee-deep.
If someone was doing Vaudevillian Blackface acts to mock black people, there would be 99.99% common agreement that this should be 'cancelled'.
But whether or not my corporation should be putting BLM on their website, that's complicated.
This is the straw-man of all straw-mans.
---> Nobody is disagreeing with this statement.
There's 'no point to miss' because it's not even a point of discussion.
Everyone agrees that 'speech has consequences' and everyone agrees that someone 'calling a Black man the N-word in a derogatory manner' is terrible.
But we are arguing of people can dress up and play characters of another race or identity, or if we can mock people who do bad things by having characters do bad things or if we can literally use bad words while intellectually discussing bad words.
Or how much 'racism' is in the 'out group' using bigotry to attack the 'in group'.
Etc. etc..
The cancel culture arguments are at the margins of hate, not knee-deep.
If someone was doing Vaudevillian Blackface acts to mock black people, there would be 99.99% common agreement that this should be 'cancelled'.
But whether or not my corporation should be putting BLM on their website, that's complicated.