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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm not sure there's much point to the Harper's letter, but there's even less point to your imaginary rebuttals to unspecified voices in your head that may or may not be similar to anything that anyone is actually saying.
If there is someone out there saying things you disagree with, why not (quote and cite and) respond to them specifically? Maybe that would help you set aside your own feelings and move towards some kind of analysis.
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https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/tr...tion#caseslist
https://nypost.com/2020/06/13/social...al-revolution/
https://reason.com/2019/12/31/cancel-culture-2019-year/
Shall I continue?
But you know it’s real. You know the signatories to that letter didn’t invent it. You know it’s pervasive, systemic in the same way racism or sexism is systemic. It’s all over the place, and turning our discourse into shit. It’s also teaching our naive kids that their feelings and their sense of urgency and righteousness are more important than logic and exchange of differing views.
You know all of this. You don’t like it. So you argue around it. Okay. You can do that.
