Dr. Wendy Carr of Netflix’s Mindhunters brings up a theme that I find fascinating / horrifying about modern progressive culture...
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Many progressives seem to be more offended / cry out more loudly for social censure at abstract, metaphorical “violence” or its evocation..
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than they are about actual, physical violence itself. Even when the latter fits into typologies that they are extremely concerned about.
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Carr is more offended at a colleague’s use of the admittedly offensive word “cunt”—but which is only employed for “professional use—
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than she is with the overall purpose of her colleague, which is to ensnare to eventually incarcerate a violent & sadistic rapist.
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Moreover she becomes extremely incensed, steps out of her professorial mode, only when the State, which is an organ explicitly charged
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with the use of force & taking lives, seeks the death penalty for the various dregs of humankind her research requires her to deal with.
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The rapist’s actions doesn’t offend her, as much as the benighted in her view locality & the language of her colleague. Simply bizarre.
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Replying to @Billare
Agreed, tho it’s less bizarre when u consider that they think such discourses ultimately *cause* violence, making such acts mere follow-thru
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The overarching paradigm is crazy, the subsequent logic somewhat less so
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