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A flyer with an image of a gun and text reading “shut the fuck up, terf” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a slur) was circulating Not accepting incivility
by lr4444lr 5y ago
A flyer with an image of a gun and text reading “shut the fuck up, terf” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a slur) was circulating
Not accepting incivility from people is hardly what I'd call a "backlash". We don't operate our universities on the heckler's veto.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoAlso, I'm not aware of anyone who seriously considers "TERF" an offensive slur... It's like saying "bigot" is a slur, or being more afraid of being labelled a racist than actually being racist...
- ribosometronome 5y agoPlenty of TERFs consider it a slur and negative. JK Rowling, for example, wrote: "...activists who clearly believe themselves to be good, kind and progressive people swarmed back into my timeline, assuming a right to police my speech, accuse me of hatred, call me misogynistic slurs and, above all – as every woman involved in this debate will know – TERF."
- whoooooo123 5y agoThe term "TERF" is exclusively used by people who attack and criticise "TERFs". It's never said without hostility, and it's often accompanied by explicit calls for violence (try searching Twitter for "kill TERFs" and "punch TERFs".) So yes, it certainly is an offensive slur - those who use it invariably mean it an offensive way.
- JanneVee 5y ago> We don't operate our universities on the heckler's veto. I've seen a few videos from various Universities where invited speakers are shouted down because of supposed wrong views. But then it isn't the heckler's veto if their views are wrong or what?
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- nemo44x 5y agoWhat's weird is that not long ago is popular to say "I disagree with everything you have to say, but I'd die for your right to say it". It's amazing how times have changed from that shared belief. The videos you haven't seen are the ones that were never made because the wrong-view person was stopped from even giving their scheduled talk via "de-platforming".
- tetranomiga 5y agoIt was popular to say, but I challenge the idea that people have somehow become less tolerant of speech they disagree with than, say, Christians in the 1980s or the US government during the Red Scare.
- lr4444lr 5y agoThey were wrong then, and these people are wrong now. Unfortunately, they also have an indelible record of the internet to hunt down those they don't like for words uttered back to their pubescent years.
- ribosometronome 5y agoAmong a certain sect of internet libertarians, maybe. And we saw that the result of that was the proliferation of communities on popular websites dedicated to legal but sexually suggestive pictures of girls (ex. /r/jailbait on Reddit), communities dedicated to voyeuristic photography, vitriolic hate against people who are overweight, etc.
- busterarm 5y agoI'm sorry but Evelyn Beatrice Hall first wrote those words in 1906, as a description of the beliefs of Voltaire, who died in 1778 and whose ideas were extremely mainstream at the time the US was founded. These ideas long predate the internet and the Libertarian political party and to box them in as such and dismiss them carelessly is extremely intellectually dishonest and bordering on flamebait. Additionally, if your best evidence against freedom of speech is Reddit, I suggest you retool your arguments from scratch.
- underseacables 5y agoIt’s too late. The University is now the violent echo chamber, paranoid that the slightest disagreement or questioning of radicalism and power-obsessed minority tribalism, will lead to a collapse of the university’s cushy well-paid status as the true halls of higher learning.