adzzzz

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by adzzzz 5y ago
the specific "Her" I was referencing was the journalist that was the subject of the linked article.
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by adzzzz 5y ago
No politicians today participate in cancel culture? I doubt it. Regardless let's use a non political example. I assume if the issue is "force of government" then you were 100% okay with the Hollywood Blacklists? (Generally ac
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by adzzzz 5y ago
Cancel culture isn't bound by politics, ethnicity, gender, etc. American conservatives are equally as guilty of this as progressives.
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by adzzzz 5y ago
Yes those are good examples of cancel culture. What point are you trying to make or are you just making assumptions about me?
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by adzzzz 5y ago
I've seen enough of the bad faith "accountability" arguments in favor of cancel culture to know the common refrain.
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by adzzzz 5y ago
There are loads and loads of laws that prohibit smoking in all sorts of places and massive sin taxes among many other things. Chalking it 100% up to public health PSAs is inaccurate
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by adzzzz 5y ago
>and/or their businesspeople and advertisers think these policies will bring in more money Yes this is the reason. They will continue to stifle speech so its more palatable for corporations to run ads on their platform. Censoring ar
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by adzzzz 5y ago
It's not even left leaning thinking. It's just socially extremely progressive neo liberalism. Most marxists would be aghast at the idea of siding with giant corporations to unperson and deny dignity to an individual with a non mai
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by adzzzz 5y ago
There was no "red scare". Joe McCarthy was simply holding Communists accountable for their beliefs.
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by adzzzz 5y ago
That the slippery slope is an inevitability is the fallacy, not that it exists. See also "Overton window"
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by adzzzz 5y ago
In a capitalistic society where corporations hold as much power or more than governments do in our day to day lives you surely must see how this is a moral principle that must apply to them also. There's life ruining things beyond jail
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by adzzzz 5y ago
Yes they are entitled and we are allowed to disagree with it. That's the point everyone is trying to make. These legalistic arguments are silly and distracting.
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by adzzzz 6y ago
Every theory (whether true or not) I've heard is this post modernist ideology came out of the French academia. Foucault, Derrida, etc. are who the American right wing blames for IDPOL
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by adzzzz 6y ago
I want content that condones pedophilia, bestiality, and other extreme pornography deplatformed yes. Why do you want to keep it up?
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by adzzzz 6y ago
It is absolutely on Reddit in droves right now.
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by adzzzz 6y ago
The cartoon depiction of sex with minors is almost certainly illegal in many districts and countries.
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by adzzzz 6y ago
I'm still shocked Reddit is allowed into the wider ecosystem of tech infrastructure. Between hosting explicit gore content and very extreme pornography with borderline legality at best (Including under Alexis's and Steve's le