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I keep running into "but who are the intolerant people these days?" The J K Rowling mess as an example: clearly someone historically very tolerant. Writes some

I keep running into "but who are the intolerant people these days?" The J K Rowling mess as an example: clearly someone historically very tolerant. Writes some articles about some areas where she disagrees with the current thinking. Is immediately cancelled. I don't see much tolerance there? Who, exactly, is being intolerant here? Or is it just everyone? Maybe I should not tolerate this any more? We've totally lost the ability to have a civil discussion about anything with anyone where the participants can disagree about the subject. Part of this, I'm convinced, is that social media doesn't actually allow a discussion. Everyone is screaming in the town square.

AshWolfy 6y ago
JK rowling tolerant? Is this the same woman who wrote a race of hooked nose greedy villians who control all the world's banks into her books?
- Seirdy 6y ago
  Don't forget the elves who turned out to actually enjoy slavery, and the girl fighting for their liberation essentially being labeled a "whiny SJW" after founding STEW. It's easy to make a series of tweets to look like an ally, but they don't offset starting a campaign against trans recognition. Ask yourself if you'd take a company promoting "environmental sustainability" seriously if it continues to fund climate-change-denying politicians. Easy advocacy doesn't cancel out the more significant types of advocacy.
websites2323 6y ago
We haven’t totally lost the ability to have a civil discussion, we’ve just for some reason raised the stakes to mean that we should be able to have a civil discussion in a forum of hundreds of people, behind screens. Civil discussion exists plenty in smaller forums, like group chats and discords and slacks where people care about being civil.
- justaman 6y ago
  [On the internet, people aren't afraid of getting punched in the mouth] - Mike Tyson

AshWolfy 6y ago

JK rowling tolerant? Is this the same woman who wrote a race of hooked nose greedy villians who control all the world's banks into her books?

Seirdy 6y ago
Don't forget the elves who turned out to actually enjoy slavery, and the girl fighting for their liberation essentially being labeled a "whiny SJW" after founding STEW. It's easy to make a series of tweets to look like an ally, but they don't offset starting a campaign against trans recognition. Ask yourself if you'd take a company promoting "environmental sustainability" seriously if it continues to fund climate-change-denying politicians. Easy advocacy doesn't cancel out the more significant types of advocacy.

websites2323 6y ago

We haven’t totally lost the ability to have a civil discussion, we’ve just for some reason raised the stakes to mean that we should be able to have a civil discussion in a forum of hundreds of people, behind screens. Civil discussion exists plenty in smaller forums, like group chats and discords and slacks where people care about being civil.

justaman 6y ago
[On the internet, people aren't afraid of getting punched in the mouth] - Mike Tyson