They should put a warning at the start, explaining the "context" and saying that erasing the lived experiences of people is bad. How will people know otherwise? We need to tell everyone. It's too upsetting. I can't handle it.
One person being offended is one person too many.
I'm employing sarcasm to make a point.
That endless revisions to avoid all possible offence are futile. And frankly undesirable.
Endless revisions to avoid all possible offence are futile. And frankly undesirable.
It's the same impulse. OMG, we can't have that. People might be offended. It all comes from the same place of censoriousness.
Yeah, I never said the impulse to censor is new. The recent development relates to the way social media has amplified fringe views and given rise to an illiberal left which seeks to censor based on these new pieties about race, gender etc, whereas the impulse was more commonly observed among the religious right. And disagreement often isn't sufficient. There needs to be boycotts and de-platforming. This is what people mean when they talk about "cancel culture", although I agree that this was not invented by the left. Nor is the impulse to censor a new phenomenon. It's as old as religion and the Dixie Chicks.
Yes, I was just talking to someone about this the other day. I think you can probably guess what I think about the hand-wringing religious folks who wanted this piece of frivolously bad art blocked from exhibition. The same lunatics who thought Harry Potter was heresy.
Damn straight. Christopher Hitchens never forgave members of the "international left" for the way they threw Rushdie under the bus. Suddenly, because Islam was involved, freedom of expression had to take a backseat to "tolerance" and "sensitivity". This is what I have in mind when I talk about the risk of creating a moral framework that could eventually be stretched to accommodate blasphemy complaints.
It isn't, unless people start getting cancelled for it. I just didn't know where else to share my bemusement about these new pieties.
Do you shoehorn the word "context" into sentences because you think it makes something nonsensical sound smarter?
www.theguardian.com
It’s just an article. Don’t get in a flap. Nothing is being cancelled.Like clockwork.Gal Gadot as Cleopatra is a backwards step for Hollywood representation
Chance goes begging to give north African actors a higher profile by playing the queen of Egypt, prolonging the debate over Hollywood’s colonisation of ethnicity
It is a cottage industry that relies on inventing new things to be offended by and new codes that must be enforced.
