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What is objective about a law? It still comes down to judgment calls. First Amendment aside, I fear that restricting speech would result in a backlash from Neo
by 3pac 4y ago
What is objective about a law? It still comes down to judgment calls.
First Amendment aside, I fear that restricting speech would result in a backlash from Neo-Nazi types, or worse, a national situation like The Gulag Archipelago describes.
How about teaching to think and write more accurately instead. "I would not have subjected my child to the humiliation of wearing a slave collar and manacles, and then photographing him, and then publishing the photograph. He is clearly shying away from the camera. He appears to be at a critical age developmentally. He may grow to resent this experience rather than learning anything from it."
Sending them back to high school-level English to read Roots and Black Like Me, and then write a paper might work. Framing it that way as a court-mandated punishment does not sound great on its face.
I suspect that some keyboard nazis just need to be exposed to more moderate discourse. However, that will not happen if they silo their discussions in sites like The Daily Stormer.
- 3pac 4y agoHN does not let me edit now, but I regret using the derogatory term "keyboard nazi", lest somebody take it as a challenge to prove they are more than that. Disaffected people have largely the same insecurities as everybody else, such as housing, job, normal human relationship and sexual issues, and addressing them is key, as opposed to allowing blame-shifting and scapegoating to fester.