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Intimidating, shaming, and otherwise excluding people from the public sphere is "mechanically filtering?" I don't support political violence either. I'm glad
by stcredzero 8y ago
Intimidating, shaming, and otherwise excluding people from the public sphere is "mechanically filtering?"
I don't support political violence either.
I'm glad to hear it. I wish I'd hear a lot more of that from the US political left. Have you ever experienced negative attention "just short of violence" from people who have an axe to grind, but who don't want to get in trouble from violence? I have. I've received such attention from people who had an axe to grind against homosexuals. I've received such attention from people who didn't like immigrants. In recent years, the most negative attention "just short of violence" I've received is from people on the far left of US politics.
- tptacek 8y agoFirst, I'm not the "US political left". Second, the thread you're commenting on is about the ability of social network operators to block people, both on Twitter and on Mastodon. You're commenting on a thread rooted in a comment suggesting that people should not, under ordinary circumstances, be allowed to block other users on a social network. The whole thread is there for you to read, and I object to you pretending for the sake of your argument that I'm the one veering it off course. Please stop.
- stcredzero 8y agoThe underlying issue is convincing vs. exercising force.
- detcader 8y ago"Conflict is Not Abuse" by Sarah Schulman is supposed to be a good book.