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>This is all about the strange and disastrous new European fear of offending Those Who Must Not Be Offended No it's not: The article describes several examples

by Kristine1975 11y ago

>This is all about the strange and disastrous new European fear of offending Those Who Must Not Be Offended No it's not: The article describes several examples of such censorship, none of which had to do with Muslims (which I guess you're alluding to).

GauntletWizard 11y ago
It's just as much the puritanical Christians and the feelings of Progressives that are demanding these coverups. It is not muslims, it is the blowback against freedom of speech by a number of groups who feel that they have a right not to be offended, and that their dogmatism is the one true way. It's not a surprise, these things are cyclical, and global culture went through nearly 50 years of expanding tolerance - The drug use of the 60s and 70s, glorification of teenage rebellion in 80s and 90s, and the tech disruption of the aughts. We're seeing a resurgence of spirituality, in much the same way we've seen it before[1]. Not all of it is explicitly religious, some of it is just indistinguishable in it's goals. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_revival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_revival
- TheOtherHobbes 11y ago
  I don't think it has anything to do with spirituality or even with religion. There seems to be a certain alpha male - or at least alpha authoritarian - model of power which is rooted in a pretence of stern, serious, and disciplined public morality combined with private self-indulgence. When you have naked boobies on display in public buildings, that model of pretended integrity starts to break down. Boobies and naked bodies - especially female bodies - are fundamentally antithetical to the immensely serious business of public alpha moral posturing. They're strictly for private off-the-record consumption only. Non-authoritarians don't care about keeping up appearances in this way. But authoritarians and narcissists most certainly do.
interfixus 11y ago
Actually, I am alluding to the European attitude to 'moslems'.

GauntletWizard 11y ago

It's just as much the puritanical Christians and the feelings of Progressives that are demanding these coverups. It is not muslims, it is the blowback against freedom of speech by a number of groups who feel that they have a right not to be offended, and that their dogmatism is the one true way. It's not a surprise, these things are cyclical, and global culture went through nearly 50 years of expanding tolerance - The drug use of the 60s and 70s, glorification of teenage rebellion in 80s and 90s, and the tech disruption of the aughts. We're seeing a resurgence of spirituality, in much the same way we've seen it before[1]. Not all of it is explicitly religious, some of it is just indistinguishable in it's goals. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_revival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_revival

TheOtherHobbes 11y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with spirituality or even with religion. There seems to be a certain alpha male - or at least alpha authoritarian - model of power which is rooted in a pretence of stern, serious, and disciplined public morality combined with private self-indulgence. When you have naked boobies on display in public buildings, that model of pretended integrity starts to break down. Boobies and naked bodies - especially female bodies - are fundamentally antithetical to the immensely serious business of public alpha moral posturing. They're strictly for private off-the-record consumption only. Non-authoritarians don't care about keeping up appearances in this way. But authoritarians and narcissists most certainly do.

interfixus 11y ago

Actually, I am alluding to the European attitude to 'moslems'.