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Where? On a message board of leftists? People are self sorting into subgroups with their own distinct overton windows.
by fullshark 7y ago
Where? On a message board of leftists? People are self sorting into subgroups with their own distinct overton windows.
- bitwize 7y agoA particular subgroup with its Overton window in a certain range is using the power of cancel culture, naming-and-shaming, etc. to see their standards applied universally. Do not underestimate this. The next frontier is identifying and punishing those who are "at risk" of transgressing identity-politics norms. I saw a few of them on Twitter crafting plans to pressure open source conferences to ban people who gave talks of the form "Making X Great Again" where X = JavaScript, unit testing, etc. on the grounds that such a title constituted "normalizing hate speech" and such people were at particularly high risk of violating relevant Codes of Conduct.
- Apocryphon 7y agoThe people creating them shouldn't be banned, but those titles should definitely be banned because that is a terrible and uncreative joke/reference that should have been retired by the end of the 2016 presidential elections.
- gnaritas 7y agoNo, they shouldn't be. Censorship is not the answer.