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>51% of Democrats support a law that requires Americans use transgender people’s preferred gender pronouns. This one blows my mind. A law that punishes people if they don't use certain words? I just... I can't even... Wow.
My Wife will be first in the slammer, English is her second language and she often gets he and she mixed up..
The reason Google, Facebook, Twitter, Cloudflare are able to get away with outright censorship of what is legally deemed to be free speech, however unpopular or distasteful it may be, is because of archaic laws that do not fit very well with speech over a medium like the internet - the above bad actors all claim private property rights and use those to trump (no pun intended to POTUS :) our constitutionally guaranteed right to (legal) free speech. The scariest/most extreme example of this was Cloudflare's example of its CEO waking up on the wrong foot one day and deciding to remove Daily Stormer's DDOS protections because he felt like it. DS is about as politically incorrect as they get, topping even 4chan's /pol/, IMHO, but it is protected speech.
Until the laws are changed to say that your ownership of a server that hosts my public speech has no right to abridge my expression, this is going to continue ad nauseum... usually through the proliferation of so called "community standards", which is basically another way of saying, "we get to determine what you can say."
>51% of Democrats support a law that requires Americans use transgender people’s preferred gender pronouns. This one blows my mind. A law that punishes people if they don't use certain words? I just... I can't even... Wow.
What blows my mind is that you believe it. From the same report what White American's (Conservatives's) think/believe: “The political climate is focused on repressing Caucasians, especially white males.” “I believe that BLM and Antifa are terrorist groups and are as antithetical to the United States as any neo-Nazi group or white nationalist group.” “I don’t believe climate change is happening because of humans.” “I…
In case it's useful to anyone on HN working in/on politics, I've been with some Trump supporting and voting people lately, and my takeaways: - They hate the idea of getting in trouble for using the wrong pronouns for people. A few strongly disliked, and most somewhat disliked, having to use non-traditional pronouns at all. - They were very upset about stories of people being suspended from elementary school after usi…
> - "Don't force it down my throat and I won't force it down yours" > - They were concerned about the decline of religion, and worry that this will lead to more radical extremists (with the radical extremists converting people who feel disenfranchised and purposeless) I'm curious about how they envision remediation of the decline of religion without shoving it down people's throat.
>51% of Democrats support a law that requires Americans use transgender people’s preferred gender pronouns. This one blows my mind. A law that punishes people if they don't use certain words? I just... I can't even... Wow.
Lets not cherry-pick here, 65% of Republicans want to fire people for bending a knee.
>51% of Democrats support a law that requires Americans use transgender people’s preferred gender pronouns. This one blows my mind. A law that punishes people if they don't use certain words? I just... I can't even... Wow.
We are starting to apply the techniques of Newspeak from 1984. By eliminating certain words from the language you can't even think incorrect thoughts anymore.
Oriental -> East Asian always baffled me too, but not being Asian myself. But I guess it's because we don't call the West the Occidental.
>51% of Democrats support a law that requires Americans use transgender people’s preferred gender pronouns. This one blows my mind. A law that punishes people if they don't use certain words? I just... I can't even... Wow.
My Wife will be first in the slammer, English is her second language and she often gets he and she mixed up..
Assuming this study is legitimate (which may be a major assumption given the source) it seems to imply the average self-identifying Democrat's views on speech have shifted radically away from the center over the last 10 years. I'd be shocked if these numbers were anywhere nearly as skewed if this poll were taken, say, in the 1990s during the previous blowback against "PC culture." If the government's role in controll…
> The survey finds that many microaggressions colleges and universities advise faculty and students to avoid aren’t considered offensive by most people of color. [...] Telling a recent immigrant: “You speak good English”. I don't understand this one. It's an aggression to tell an immigrant they speak good English? People have told me I speak good English, where they aggressive? I guess they could say it in a condesce…
I definitely agree with you that it's wrong to call it an aggression and there definitely shouldn't be any rules about saying something like that, but I do think there is something wrong with going into a conversation assuming that the other person does not possess a skill because of their ethnicity.
I don't have an issue with PC culture. It's a way for us to be trained to show empathy and respect for others. "PC Culture" online gradually trained me to not be homophobic and to become accepting of the LGBT community civil right fight. That's just one of several examples that have helped me evolve in the last decade. If the objections to my speech/actions were silenced or discredited it's a good chance I'd still ha…
It sounds, though, that people used their speech - at a time when their speech was constitutionally protected but neither popular or safe, to change your mind. I think this, among other things, is what Biden may be referring to in his recent comments on freedom of speech.