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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2022-12-02 09:17 pm

[ SECRET POST #5810 ]


⌈ Secret Post #5810 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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05. [SPOILERS for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever]




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06. [SPOILERS for Sandman]
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(Anonymous) 2022-12-03 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT

Politicians who say awful things about gay people (or Jews, or blacks, or women who get abortions, or insert so many scapegoat groups here) are being propped up by piles of less influential people who believe those things. The problem isn't that we can't duct-tape their mouths shut, the problem is that the billionaires of this world sleep better at night when they know that the increasingly stressed out and fucked over wage-dependent people that vastly outnumber them are aiming their rage at each other.

That second group - people whose only legal contribution to politics is voting - already feels keenly that they have too little power, and they lash out hard at the idea of people they disagree with being able to dictate how to live to them. (On top of all the other stuff they don't want and don't know how to say "no" to.) And politicians and the media cynically manipulate that, encouraging discord and deepening divisions.

You may be under the impression that no one is saying "talk like you agree with me, or be dressed-down, kicked out of any public space, and erased as if you never were," but that's exactly how threatening normal people's media accounts looks to anyone who isn't already sold on the idea that the expanded definitions of "hate speech" are reasonable. Or convinced that subsequent, future definitions of "what should not be said" will be fair.

(Anonymous) 2022-12-04 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
So some people are misinterpreting things because they're uninformed, looking for conspiracies everywhere, and want to play the victim, and the rest of us are supposed to cater to them? Why?