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I think in some cases silence is violence. For example, the silence of ones witnessing co workers when a woman tries to report being sexually harassed in her wo

I think in some cases silence is violence. For example, the silence of ones witnessing co workers when a woman tries to report being sexually harassed in her workplace. Like if a woman describes witnesses to her being groped by a co worker, and all the witnesses just shrug and say nothing to defend her, that workplace has in effect allowed sexual harassment to occur and condones continued harassment of women. That being said I do think it’s dumb for putting ones pronouns or whatever. But I think when we paint “wokeness” with this extremely broad brush we’re just doing the same bullshit that we’re accusing “wokeness” of doing.

throwaway210222 5y ago
> woman describes witnesses to her being groped by a co worker, and all the witnesses just shrug and say nothing Surely they are only alleged witnesses until they testify? How else do you tell the difference between a witness who actually saw nothing? [Or do you just declare that scenario to not exist?] And that there is the violence in the woke - no due procedure. If the claimant said it happened, then it happened - let's move on to sentencing.
- angelzen 5y ago
  And dole out the harshest possible sentence, short of physical maiming: unbounded social ostracism. In old times we'd brand undesirables by burning their skin with a hot rod. These days we brand them 'racist' or 'sexist' on the Internet, and rely on the fact that the Internet never forgets and is easily searchable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_branding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_branding