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Yeah that's a good point, although, that involves the threat of violence. The threat of losing your job, or effectively being "un-personed" in your career isn'
by stcredzero 9y ago
Yeah that's a good point, although, that involves the threat of violence.
The threat of losing your job, or effectively being "un-personed" in your career isn't so great. That's basically the level of coercion which Harvey Weinstein stooped to.
What the article says SJWs do is threaten moral condemnation
It's moral condemnation in bad faith. If there were principles at stake, then there would be room for discourse. This isn't that. It's coercion in the interest of power.
So the conservatives and libertarians that are supposedly being oppressed by SJWs are being suppressed by a system they support.
By actors in bad faith. It's much like democracies that elect governments that end up being totalitarian or theocratic. Short circuiting free speech itself is fundamentally the ultimate form of bad faith in a democracy. That one side thinks such a thing is in reach is a sign that they wish to shut down dissent and act as authoritarians. It was true of the right in the 60's. It's true now of the left in the 20-teens.