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MariaB -> RE: Do you believe in unmitigated free speech? (7/23/2016 1:27:13 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Awareness
Well then Maria, I would respectfully suggest you haven't been paying attention.
There's an ongoing cultural authoritarianism being promoted by the left which is tantamount to censorship of viewpoints it doesn't agree with. Far from encouraging vigorous debate we now have "safe spaces", "micro-aggressions" and.... every feminist's favourite piece of misandrist legerdemain "misogyny".
I'll give you a few examples of the kinds of cultural censorship which the left regularly engages in. Under the increasingly totalitarian leftist regime, you cannot say things such as:
* Trans people are mentally ill. The vast majority have other mental illness in addition to gender dysmorphia. Their risks of suicide are 22 times greater regardless of whether they transition or not. 40% of trans people who opt for surgery regret doing so. For the vast majority, surgery does not increase their level of happiness.
Those are all FACTS, but the cultural authoritarianism of the left says that anyone who values facts over feelings is a monster.
* There is no gender pay gap. Women choose easier jobs, work fewer hours, prefer better conditions over easier pay, take less risks (because of lower testosterone) and are less aggressive in their pay negotiations (due to a lower appetite for risk). Men also constitute 95% of workplace deaths because they take the riskier jobs which - surprise, surprise - pay more.
These are all FACTS but the cultural authoritarianism of the left will not allow facts to get in the way of the narrative.
* The 1 in 5 rape (or sexual assault depending on which lie they're telling at the time) statistic is categorically false. College campuses are safer places with lower risk of rape than the general population, all of the actual statistics tell us including victims of crime surveys conducted by the FBI indicate that roughly 1 in 40 women will be raped in her lifetime.
These are all FACTS, but the cultural authoritarianism and victim-hood pyramid of the left will not allow facts to get in the way of its misandrist "men are oppressors" narrative.
* Men are at far greater risk for assault or murder than women. This is a fact. Yet the left claims that our culture is misogynist because women experience violence. We must hold "take back the night" rallies and stop violence against women despite the fact that violence against women is a far lesser problem than violence against men.
* Women are more likely to engage in intimate partner violence. 50% of intimate partner violence is bidirectional, but when it's unidirectional, the woman is the sole perpetrator 70% of the time. Lesbian relationships have the highest rates of intimate partner violence. Gay men have the lowest. These are facts.
Yet the "men are monsters" narrative of the left insists that domestic violence is about male power and control and presents misandrist concepts such as the Duluth model which attempts to claim that domestic violence is implicitly male.
If you agree with the left's stance on any of these things, you are valuing narrative and feelings over fact and are contributing to the ongoing censorship of ideas which make the left uncomfortable.
Remember the saying, ‘The right to free speech belongs to those who are willing to preserve it’.
Freedom of speech doesn’t include the expression of a lie though, so when the right wing press conspire with their right wing government to promote freedom of speech as a right wing and not a left wing belief then we are bound to have the masses believing that misinformation.
Headlines which state, ‘Muslims cannot be integrated into Europe or the U.S. because those Arab bastards are raping our women and marrying their children’ isn’t freedom of speech; its merely words used to exploit the gullible masses and create a pathway to prejudice. I don’t agree with those who use the freedom of speech umbrella to create an atmosphere of suspicion and hate because I can’t have a vigorous debate based on lies; lies that can be backed up by umpteen links to main line right wing media channels.
Right wing papers hate their inferiors and by joining hands with a right wing government they’ve used fickle reporting as a meal ticket to broaden their slander on things like benefit scroungers. You don’t find the same stories in left leaning papers because the left know its merely western propaganda; they tend to stick with intelligent reporting.
I work with vulnerable adults. That includes men who have come out of domestic abuse situations and men who have been sexually abused and even raped whilst doing prison time. Men are more likely to commit suicide than women and when they do attempt suicide, men are more likely to succeed. I’m trained to fully understand the sort of trauma a mans mind goes through when his ex tries to stop him seeing his children and I fully understand the general population have held on to this antiquated view that men need to just ‘man up’. This isn’t a left or right thing, it’s a society problem, a conditioning that’s been like this for thousands of years.
I would call myself a feminist but that doesn’t mean I think women could do a lot of jobs a man does well. I appreciate most women couldn’t spend all day carrying a hod full of bricks up and down a ladder or have the required strength to hold a concrete cutter in steady hands. I don’t believe a female sniper could make a snap decision to shoot a child that is walking with something that looks like a bomb towards our soldiers. I don’t believe women should have an automatic right to keep their children in a divorce, that mother is best or that women are less capable of violence than men. Oh… and I do know female violence is on the up… massively.
That doesn’t make me right wing or left wing, it just means I understand facts.
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You must be the first person who's openly stated they respect Tweakabelle. That's a somewhat bizarre admission.
I don't think I've read Tweakabelles posts. I was meaning someone else.
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