They're justifying punitive consequences. Obviously, ppl hope speech will have consequences in terms of persuading others.
I am not sure about this tho, having not spent nearly as much time talking to people who fear violence in video games etc.
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Is it not related though? Controversial/violent ideas in films and games are harmful in the same way as in speech.
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It's analogous but I'm not sure it comes from the same source. Just like atheism was & still is seen as a corrupting influence. Also porn.
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This is an old impulse &underlies heresy/blasphemy but the fear of corrupting what is good is different to the urge to dismantle what is bad
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Or, they might say, it reinforces the bad or the status quo.
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Yes, it is the lefties who see status quo as bad & themselves as continuing the project of dismantling oppressive systems.
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I think this explains it well.
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Thanks! This is why I just wrote a thing with James Lindsay abt the need to defend modernity rather than the left or the right.
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If it ties into 'toxic masculinity' it could be a leftist theoretical thing. If it comes from a desire to keep things clean,a conservative 1
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