| ▲ | henryfjordan 21 hours ago |
| The perception is that the left is in favor of censoring slurs and hate symbols. As a reaction, Trump/MAGA has brought back the R-word for instance. Saying the Left are "pro-censorship" is not factually incorrect but definitely has a different connotation. |
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| ▲ | GJim 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > the R-word ?? |
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| ▲ | coloneltcb 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| broadly speaking, it _is_ factually incorrect to say that. Censorship is the government controlling what information the public can access. No one on "the left" is trying to pass a law saying that people should get jail time for using the R-word. Political correctness, woke/cancel culture, whatever you want to call it, is not censorship. And it's not splitting hairs to say this; words have meaning and though 'censorship' is particularly abused, it is still quite different from me looking down on someone who uses the R slur on X (as I do daily) |
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| ▲ | henryfjordan 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Censorship is the government controlling what information the public can access Wikipedia and the ACLU both use a more expansive definition, where your definition is only 1 type of censorship. The "Left" uses empathy to convince people to self-censor and less often uses "Cancel Culture" to pressure companies into private censorship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
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| ▲ | liveoneggs 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There are more subtle forms of censorship, continuously employed by the government to prop up or push down various things. Covid had many such examples of pressure tactics from the government come to light but I'm sure it happens constantly. For a specific recent example democrat-leaning states had much stricter and longer-lasting covid lockdowns - preventing free association is a form of censorship. | |
| ▲ | ipaddr 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Political correctness, woke/cancel culture, whatever you want to call it, is not censorship Cancel culture is literally censorship. Deplatforming is censorship. Debanked is censorship. I don't know what the R word is but there is a group of people you can't even look down at because they have been deplatformed and cancelled. The left has passed laws and people do get jail time for social media posts in the UK. |
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