Honest questions on free speech, because I'm trying not to presume bad motives:
Why do ISIS recruiters not deserve a platform, but white supremacists do?
Why is the devaluation of my life a more worthwhile topic of debate than the devaluation of yours?
Why do ISIS recruiters not deserve a platform, but white supremacists do?
Why is the devaluation of my life a more worthwhile topic of debate than the devaluation of yours?
Why do racist and sexist bigots like Charles Murray get so many defenders on the right, who find no trouble rightfully calling out racial and sexist bigots like Louis Farrakhan?
Why is it that speech that harms marginalized people generally considered okay to debate and hear out? But speech calling out white privilege and fragile masculinity considered immediately worthy of condemnation and discard?
Why is that people who claim good intentions police the tone of marginalized people so much as "unproductive", but seem to spend so little time condemning the speech of the people those marginalized people are responding to?
Why is that people who claim good intentions hold activists of marginalized voices to such a high standard of conduct, but are so forgiving of the very people those voices say are contributing to their marginalization? Why do those people get passes?
Why is aggressively fighting for the rights of marginalized voices dismissed as virtue signalling and being an SJW? Why isn't fighting for those voices actually considered a virtue? Why is being mean expected to be the default?
Why is a man realizing that the standards of masculinity hurt not only women but men too, and telling that to other men, considered feminizing men? Why are we so invested in masculinity as it was taught to us?
Holy crap I've gone totally off the original topic I started with, I'm sorry. I'm just asking things that I wonder now. I make an effort to hear people out on here and understand, but I really struggle so hard to understand certain things.
Why are so many people on the right disgusted by "identity politics", but then will turn around and point out the identity of someone to defend their views? Why does it matter that Ben Shapiro is Jewish to defend his racism?
Why is it so hard to see the suffering and oppression of others? Is it really so hard to see past our privilege? Does our privilege hide the oppression of others by design?
I'm going to stop. I'm just thinking out loud. I'm not looking to debate people. I'll read all the answers. Sorry for flooding your TL.
Love you all.
Love you all.
