tech’s push to erase pornography is the natural extension of behavior we used to complain about but never pay much attention to - i.e. apple’s fuck / duck manipulation in text, or youtube’s demonitization of sex education.
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now, a very small, very homogenous handful of billionaires with total control of our society’s means of communication are trying, in some cases openly, to shape the way we think by controlling what we read, watch, and - increasingly - say.
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our stories have taught us censorship comes from military tyrants, fascists, regressive religious leaders, and always in the service of some overtly insidious goal. but the devil doesn’t look like voldemort, and we have no cultural antibodies to ‘nice guy’ thought police.
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Replying to @micsolana @St_Rev
My father once referenced the old "Hitler coming to America would look like John Wayne" quote. "No... Hitler coming to America in 1962 would look like John Wayne. .... in 2017, Hitler will look like Oprah."
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Yup. I was thinking just this morning that Americans' ideas about race hate are so narrow -- we have antibodies against one narrow case from the 1940s, and excuse it away in every other permutation.
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Replying to @St_Rev @LibertyFarmNH
And, predictably, this has led to an influential consensus (not among the people, but among those who claim to speak for them) that holds not just that race hate among nonwhites is fine, but that race hate is a moral failing inherent to white people, that it defines 'whiteness'.
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Kind of the Maginot Line of ideological antibodies. Next time around, the murderswarm's just going to drive around it.
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