Things That Might Be Done: A List to be updated as I have ideas
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3. Shift to an assertive stance. We have spent years falling back on our heels. This needs to stop.https://youtu.be/Ms_WY0s_1XM
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Cribbing from Ken Kesey, this is accepting the role another has chosen for you in their story rather than acting as the protagonist in your own. This makes overcoming a hostile narrative nearly impossible. You write your own defeat into every line.
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We don't have to live like this. Irony aside our ideas and values are extremely fucking good when measured against the fideistic puerility arrayed against us. We ought to comport ourselves with confidence and dignity when asserting them and deprecate desperate undertones.
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Another option is attacking *their* flank. By Overton-defenestrating the more radicals among them.
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yes, if you can't compete with the whole block aim for the most radical -well-worded statement that won't trigger everybody -substantial theoretical backing -pre-mobilization to defend statement & prevent mobb snowball -policing of far right/too extreme support (poisonous)
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There are some adverse selection effects at work. Some people regard controversy as an end in itself, and so a "free-thinking" publication is going to end up publishing stuff written by third-rate wannabes for whom being "cancelled" is a step up in the status game.
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a free thinking publication needn't promise to publish any old edgy thing though. quality criteria can still be there. just minus any PC filter.
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points of reference re. coordination efforts. EFF's 'batsignal' initiative https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/07/bat-signal-internet … Free speech union (love the idea. dislike their main spokesperson) https://freespeechunion.org/
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Also tricky because a lot of the people being cancelled don't actually *like* free speech. They aren't libertarians or classical liberals with a principled stance, but conservatives upset that they're the ones being censored rather than the ones doing the censoring.
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