Re:The moral case against equity language
by sbuk on Friday March 03, 2023 @04:22AM
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It not even a majority that dictates. It’s ostensibly a vocal minority of professional offence-takers who wield power, generally on social media. My partner has MS, and I made an off-the-cuff joke about it, and got pilloried by people that neither of us know. Not one of them took the time to consider that this is how we deal with it; they were too busy being offended on her behalf.
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Re:The moral case against equity language
by circlefavshape on Friday March 03, 2023 @04:29AM
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> a vocal minority of professional offence-takers
A role that used to be filled (in Ireland) by priests and nuns, and the Legion of Mary. One of the big problems I used to have with religion was the moral policing - imagine my surprise when the power of the church waned, but the moral policing only intensified
Re:The moral case against equity language
by LewisVerstappen on Saturday March 04, 2023 @02:44PM
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> It’s ostensibly a vocal minority of professional offence-takers who wield power, generally on social media
The issue is that these people have seeped into positions of power at media institutions like the NY Times, WaPo, etc.
Now they're using the decades of trust those institutions have built to shove their ideology down everyone's throat.