Apparently, I function only on care/harm foundation coz I defend ppls right to traditions despite silly ppl getting hurt feelings over it.
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Not talking abt some1s feelings being hurt coz some1 else doesn't get their pronouns right/share their religion/approve their sexuality.
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If we care abt ppl's feelings being hurt by someone else's ideas, we'd have to be consistent about this. This is impossible in practice.
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It'd look like this: You hurt me by refusing to use my preferred pronouns. You hurt me by refusing to comply with my preferred gender roles
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We couldn't get anywhere because no-one would ever be able to say anything or be themselves or live their lives.
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And, in reality, ppl who argue that they should be protected from offense, don't argue that everyone should. Just ppl who think like them.
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So, in reality, the groups who have greatest cultural capital get the right to have their feelings protected & everyone else can GTFO.
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For a long time it was religion which had the right not to be offended & in many places it still is. For certain religions anyway.
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Now in some places, its ppl with marginalised identities who have the right not to be offended & many are very offended by this.
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Protecting everyone's feelings can't work, protecting some ppl's feelings can only work for some ppl. There is another option & we knew this
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Not protecting anyone's feelings works to large extent for everyone coz we value right to free expression more than protection from offence
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I value right to be non-religious more than right not to be offended by religious ideas. So I must defend the same right for religious ppl.
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Because I wouldn't want religious ppl to claim both as rights - to be religious & not to be offended by the ideas of the non-religious.
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If ur demanding the right to express &live by your own views *and* the right never to be offended by ppl expressing &living by opposing ones
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...you are not liberal. If you know this &think its a good thing, at least ur honest. If ur still claiming to be liberal, fucking get a grip
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And this is how I end up spending a day defending Morris dancers (FFS!) right 2 keep wearing their silly face paint as they have for 500 yrs
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And religious ppls right to talk bollocks, & the far-right & left to advocate illiberalism & radfems right to be wrong abt almost everything
End of conversation
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