Every oppressed minority group has members who embrace respectability politics, who want to be "one of the good ones", and some are able to leverage that for personal profit. It doesn't work for the group as a whole.
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Replying to @autogynamelia @WaPoMax and
And every movement has it's irrational radicals. People who, say, mob a library and threaten violence against a woman who disagrees with trans women in women's spaces.
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
That is a debatable issue. You can be pro, you can be con, but by what right do you set up mock guillotines outside the library hosting the event?
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
Freedom of speech, the same right by which they hold the event
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Replying to @arthur_affect @WaPoMax and
Hmm... chopping off heads and en threatening to punch women. We've finally found some freedom of expression you endorse! Your tolerance of the Charlie Hebdo massacre is REALLY coming into focus now :)
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
Yes, we've established that you define the freedom of expression of anyone you don't like as "censorship" even though it's people exercising the exact same right It's a common and hypocritical move
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IAmDeathRay and
You really like the (apocryphal) Voltaire quote about defending people's right to say whatever the fuck they want no matter how offensive it is right Well you're not defending my speech against free speech despite how offensive it is to you Checkmate, etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IAmDeathRay and
The hilarious thing about the sheer level of PIETY and SANCTIMONY around
#JeSuisCharlie If you really believe in the necessity of toppling all idols and using satire to mock everything people hold sacred isn't the most obvious target Charlie Hebdo themselves1 reply 3 retweets 18 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @IAmDeathRay and
Isn't it by far the most transgressive and courageous thing to do to actually go "Pfft, they had it coming" after the massacre? Isn't that exactly what a Charlie Hebdo type would do (did, in fact, do) in response to a tragedy that happened to someone else?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @WaPoMax and
No, what the Charlie Hebdo people would do is exactly what *I* did to honor them (in my small way). They'd publish a cartoon with a drawing of Muhammed as a "fuck you" you to right wing AND liberal pieties.pic.twitter.com/phTXuM2QBA
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Okay so this isn't really an abstract commitment to "free speech", you obviously have your own side that you're cheering on while claiming that you have no team colors and playing the role of the ref
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IAmDeathRay and
It was really obvious that after the Charlie Hebdo massacre people putting up the
#JeNeSuisPasCharlie hashtag got way more abuse and condemnation and attacks than people putting up the#JeSuisCharlie one, which pretty much every major institution got behind1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @IAmDeathRay and
But you still think you're some kind of brave underdog, which is telling
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