I think it is. Thought policing itself is a kind of violence. Unilateral nature comes from asymmetric ability to police.
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What differentiates thought policing from disagreement under asymmetric power dynamics (if anything)?
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Both racist provocation (if any) and the policing reaction are easier, so it's a form that adversely, disprop selects for idiots
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Would this do as a definition, then? "culturally motivated attempt to regulate means of expression under asymmetric power?"
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thought police would be out of a job if somebody actually *solved* the problem. Or even began moving needle.
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yup, and I suspect we'd find similar history there.
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Given those are two of the most oft-cited examples of successful reform, are there evocative examples of those you'd hoping to see?
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abolition: Jim Crow between peaks of emancipation and Civil Rights?
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fascinating, so just to clarify: those are archetypal examples of periods of reform to be emulated?
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