Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectual society

Re:Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectua... by realjhol on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @07:27PM (#34813149)

That's irrelevant.

The fact is that we don't have neutral institutions. Even theoretically it would be extremely unlikely, and in practice it won't happen, chiefly because it would involve people in the in-group making comittiments to deplorable people in the out-group.

This might be approximately possible in a united cohesive high-trust society... but that bond of kinship simply doesn't exist anywhere in the West today

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Re:Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectua... by raxxorraxor on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:24AM (#34816328)

Journalists thought the same while feeling decently smart. They were neither smart nor produced articles worth reading in the end.

Anyone can strive to objectivity. Even if you can never reach it, the quality between someone who tries and someone who gives up is tremendous.

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