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0 pointsfennecfoxen5y ago0 comments

When social norms say that you're not allowed to share a dissenting view, we get to call that an "orthodoxy" and should be consider the extent to which it is damaging and repressive, rather than simply taking the merit of the orthodoxy for granted. Such consideration should be all the more important when we happen to agree with those norms.

(You've been punished for questioning geocentrism? Should have respected those social norms, Galileo my friend.)

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apcragg5y ago· 3 in thread

I mean if you want to conflate social norms with debates about knowledge and practice, sure great zinger you have there.

Unfortunately, many people do not have the luxury of treating their race, sexuality, gender, religion, etc, as a matter of ideological debate. The perspective of framing the social treatment of immutable identities as encouraging orthodoxy comes from a position of privilege.

fennecfoxenOP5y ago

If you think that the current cancel-culture zeitgeist (on the right and the left alike) doesn't shut down questions about knowledge and practice, you're blind or an ideologue.

But I thank you for being so kind as to include Religion in the list of acceptable "identities". As you have framed the matter, I do NOT happen to have the luxury and privilege to blindly extend deference to our glorious champions of freedom™ and equality™ and accept their diktats without criticism or debate. This is because they are hypocrites and they are tyrants. The Democratic Party in particular treats my church as an archenemy and longs to see it destroyed. They can't even leave a convent of nuns alone to not-pay-homage to their birth control diktats.

non-entity5y ago

> The Democratic Party in particular treats my church as an archenemy and longs to see it destroyed. They can't even leave a convent of nuns alone to not-pay-homage to their birth control diktats.

What the hell does this even mean. This sounds more like emotional ramblings than any relevant comments. "What does not-pay-homage to their birth control diktats" even mean?

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monksy5y ago

> The perspective of framing the social treatment of immutable identities as encouraging orthodoxy comes from a position of privilege.

Are you discounting his statements due to his identity or presumed "privilege"?

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