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Re:Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York by mancerayder on Friday August 12, 2022 @11:43AM (#32440238)
And observers hoping to police ideas, speech and whether something is offensive, with the intention of shutting someone down. They don't call it censorship.

It's like some sort of revival of Puritanism, but without the warehousing of mentally ill people we did until the 1970s.

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Re:Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York by TMWNN on Friday August 12, 2022 @03:17PM (#32442819)
>And observers hoping to police ideas, speech and whether something is offensive, with the intention of shutting someone down. They don't call it censorship.

I've heard it said that "problematic" is the woke religion's equivalent to "blasphemous".

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