"The shooting in Buffalo last month was but the latest example of terrorist attacks becoming a lethal outlet for white supremacist grievances."
No, because, no more than the black Darrell Brooks plowing a car into a parade of white people killing 6 and injuring 60, it is not terrorism and it is not any evidence of a lethal outlet for white , not any other color, supremacist grievances. This is woke language and the user of this language is branding himself as being indoctrinated into that cult. Please stop.
The manifesto from the Buffalo shooter was that of a mentally disturbed person. He says he was a communist. That he rejects Christianity. Rejects conservatism. Rejects capitalism. Is a "green nationalist" and an "echo-fascist". One could more easily make the case that he is a liberal environmental extremist.
I have to ask, is going there... going to the "white supremacist" catch phrase without any real evidence that it is a material thing today... is that not an example of hate speech? Is that not an example of institutional neoracist impulses? Because the impetus of institutional racism is to punch down a racial group of people so that the punchers feel superior. It seems to me that coastal liberals afflicted with the woke mind virus are the new racists in this modern political arena. For some reason they feel the need to punch down working class whites... the same demographic having their lives shattered by coastal liberals running the government and media (same industry). The voters are really tired of it.
Exactly! Banning of "hate" speech further divides and polarizes attitudes and serves as justification for their actions and behaviour. The larger point is who gets to define and monitor what is "hate" speech? That scares me even more. Censorship by mob, hectoring, canceling or shouting makes things worse and will motivate other to take even worse action. It shows a total lack of respect or even civility. Too many college campuses permit silencing of differing views that do not conform to their orthodoxy. This has to stop.
When it comes to social media and democracy. One can say that social media is "good" for democracy but not "optimal" since for example Facebook makes it easier for a larger number of humans to express themselves but was never created to replace the current forms of representative democracy with parliaments and governments. https://www.opulens.se/global/is-social-media-bad-for-democracy/
"The shooting in Buffalo last month was but the latest example of terrorist attacks becoming a lethal outlet for white supremacist grievances."
No, because, no more than the black Darrell Brooks plowing a car into a parade of white people killing 6 and injuring 60, it is not terrorism and it is not any evidence of a lethal outlet for white , not any other color, supremacist grievances. This is woke language and the user of this language is branding himself as being indoctrinated into that cult. Please stop.
The manifesto from the Buffalo shooter was that of a mentally disturbed person. He says he was a communist. That he rejects Christianity. Rejects conservatism. Rejects capitalism. Is a "green nationalist" and an "echo-fascist". One could more easily make the case that he is a liberal environmental extremist.
I have to ask, is going there... going to the "white supremacist" catch phrase without any real evidence that it is a material thing today... is that not an example of hate speech? Is that not an example of institutional neoracist impulses? Because the impetus of institutional racism is to punch down a racial group of people so that the punchers feel superior. It seems to me that coastal liberals afflicted with the woke mind virus are the new racists in this modern political arena. For some reason they feel the need to punch down working class whites... the same demographic having their lives shattered by coastal liberals running the government and media (same industry). The voters are really tired of it.
Exactly! Banning of "hate" speech further divides and polarizes attitudes and serves as justification for their actions and behaviour. The larger point is who gets to define and monitor what is "hate" speech? That scares me even more. Censorship by mob, hectoring, canceling or shouting makes things worse and will motivate other to take even worse action. It shows a total lack of respect or even civility. Too many college campuses permit silencing of differing views that do not conform to their orthodoxy. This has to stop.
When it comes to social media and democracy. One can say that social media is "good" for democracy but not "optimal" since for example Facebook makes it easier for a larger number of humans to express themselves but was never created to replace the current forms of representative democracy with parliaments and governments. https://www.opulens.se/global/is-social-media-bad-for-democracy/