We’ve normalised a political climate where mocking your own constituents for being queer, Palestinian, or visibly different is a winning move. That’s not democracy functioning. That’s epistemic decay, where truth and dignity are replaced by clicks and clout.
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Epistemic decay perfectly describes what's happening in the USA.
This garbage only comes from one side of the political spectrum.
This ostentative display of rebellion, or whatever this is, will *always* be offensive to more conservative people (it's probably what they're looking for anyway)
It’s to define who belongs in the public. This student is being told, implicitly and explicitly, you don’t. That’s what makes this moment chilling. That’s why it matters.
Or: real democracy.
So that when, say, sb published a death threat on SM, you should be able to sue the social medium itself, rather than need to go against a rando sockpuppet
"Of course I'm going to be professional. I love my job and I'm not going to let one person ruin it. I'll just professionally and politely bury them."
You cannot beat oppression without oppressing
This person deserves no respect, and should be unaccountably extricated without much need for evidence; and very importantly, *liberals*, who *actually have power to do this*, must become fine with that.
The student graduated the top of their class and did nothing to this f****** council person but exist
If someone is pro-weaponizing speech, then you have the force via votes / public support to propagate it or you don’t.
At that point you need to fight with regard to the parameters of that reality—if you were in space, you can’t try to move around as though there’s gravity.
(Alas, for too many people these days right and left, politics IS culture. It's what they have instead of art or religion, which is a hell of a thing to do to politics.)
Black People: Um, maybe black people are also human beings?
White People: WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE IDENTITY POLITICS?
equality and respect EVEN IF they wanna dye their hair purple.
I thought it looked cool.
You want sweeping change, but don't want people to care about creating that change? You don't want people to to feel the anger about current systemic harms that might motivate that change?
I am outraged by adults ritually humiliating children, so I'm the prob?
I don't really know how to do that without outrage.