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> The most obvious problem here is the wording of the question. “Offensive” is a term almost exclusively associated with the political left. Conservative media
by chillacy 5y ago
> The most obvious problem here is the wording of the question. “Offensive” is a term almost exclusively associated with the political left. Conservative media has spent years reinforcing the idea that feminists, minorities and college students are too easily offended. When conservative throw tantrums— Dr. Seuss, face masks, Lil Nas X, the “war on Christmas,” we could do this all day — their paroxysms are almost never described using the O-word.
The author clearly has biases of his own, but this is actually an interesting point I hadn't really thought about. If we replace the word "Offensive" with something like "Disrespectful" or something we might completely flip the results, so the very question is politically primed to begin with.
- fallingknife 5y agoI think there is an interesting point here, but it doesn't invalidate the statistics like the author claims. 42% of people who were "strong liberals" agreed that they self-censored because of fear of "offending" other people.
- KarlKemp 5y agoIt’s perfectly fine to “self-censor”, and 100% of living adults do it. You don’t need to tell your father-in-law that he gained weight. It’s not the kind of information that wants to be free. The only actual censorship that’s happening in the US is actual laws by actual first-amendment-bound jurisdictions making it illegal to mention the possible existence of a concept called “racism”, all under the immoral panic over “Critical Race Theory”.
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