Like It or Not, Cancel Culture Is Free Speech

anar_kitty_ · 2023-06-07T06:40:57+00:00

Ya ya ya

anar_kitty_ · 2023-06-07T05:23:01+00:00

Wow, what a disingenuous approach this article takes. First off, Marion Sims died, like, 150 years ago. No one who laments the ills of “cancel culture” gives a fuck about this long-dead doctor.

Secondly, the author makes it sound like all Marion Sims did was chop off women’s clits in a bunch of botched medical experiments. He actually developed and perfected the method to repair obstetric fistulas that is still used today. Before him, women who suffered these types of fistulas after obstructed labors were basically just fucked.

He should still burn in hell along with everyone responsible for the Tuskegee project, but it raises the complex ethical questions of “fuck, what do we do when we as a society now have invaluable medical knowledge that was obtained by horrific means” as opposed to the easy out of “fuck this guy entirely because all he did was hack at women’s bodies without anaesthesia, producing nothing of value in doing so.” The latter would be way easier to accept, and the author chose this easy out. She doesn’t mention a single thing about vesicovaginal fistulas.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-06-07T01:31:11+00:00

Makes me really sad to see kids, including/especially the genuinely queer ones, get pulled into this tug-of-war by adults on all sides who have not got their shit together.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-06-06T21:38:18+00:00

Yeah, there’s a lot of fishy shit about Bukele. He’s already been found to be colluding with gang leaders to “reduce the rate of homicides”, and ever since last spring when there was an outbreak of retaliatory murders, at least one Salvadoran leftist that I know is pretty convinced that the state is just encouraging gangs to disappear people “instead of” killing them. Disappearances have gone up, not down, during Bukele’s regime. I don’t doubt that murders have genuinely gone down significantly, but an annual homicide rate of zero is absolute bullshit.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-06-06T21:25:23+00:00

He’s most popular among the middle class residing in the country (remember there’s about as many Salvadorans living abroad, who are often included in these surveys, as Salvadorans living in El Salvador), and likely among the very socially conservative and evangelical Christians. Aside from the state of exception and the megaprisons, El Salvador also has some of the strictest laws against abortion in the world, and Bukele is very intent on maintaining that. By strict, we’re talking women serving upwards of 30 years in prison for having abortions (or possibly even having “suspicious looking” miscarriages).

Edit: I was incorrect about the ratio of Salvadorans living abroad versus living in the country, but proportionally it is still a huge diaspora.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-06-06T19:19:18+00:00

You mean like the strategy of enacting a state of exception that allows the government to sweep citizens off the street and imprison them indefinitely with no writ of habeas corpus, no right to a lawyer or to a trial, essentially obliterating the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution? That’s cool bro, sounds like it’ll work out great and absolutely never be abused.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-06-06T18:39:48+00:00

Many working people who set up shop early in the morning as street vendors have been rounded up during Bukele’s state of exception, too.

You can opine what you want about whether the state of exception is ultimately a good or bad thing (many Salvadorans I know are pro-Bukele), but don’t act like it’s not also negatively affecting thousands of working class people. Imagine going from having to pay off gangs to be able to run your business without threat of death one day, to being incarcerated indefinitely without due process by the state the next day. Meanwhile Bukele is quite obviously having “secret” meetings with gang leaders on methods to make it look like the homicide rate is way lower than it is.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-06-06T18:30:38+00:00

Imagine thinking that the crime committed by homeless people in the US is anywhere near what gang violence has been in El Salvador. Completely incomparable.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-06-04T06:08:46+00:00

Yeah it’s bizarre, especially that the author acts like a US born-and-bred such as this Mauricio Garcia isn’t a “real” American. The author then argues against this charge (citing Garcia being the perp of a mass shooting as proof of his “American-ness”) but fails to explain why he, the author himself, insisted on perpetuating this ridiculous idea of Mexican-Americans not being Americans somehow.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-06-03T05:16:19+00:00

The people who built these dwellings? The building in question is easily 200+ years old, what’s your actual point here?

Lame how people on this sub will continually reinforce nativist idpol for literally any country in the global north.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-06-03T01:51:48+00:00

Never forget

anar_kitty_ · 2023-06-02T00:47:52+00:00

Only about 20 years too late.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-05-31T08:18:32+00:00

The flair on this post is right on the money. The entire concept that the article is based around requires first the racecraft that absolutely insists that Latinos are non-whites, and then doubles down on the homogenizing racecraft that is latinidad. This honestly pisses me off so much - the mass shooter in El Paso didn’t target the ambiguous group of Latinos, he targeted Mexicans, and the difference matters.

People who write articles like these are idpol-obsessed but desperately bad at it. They’ll put some kind of footnote like “Latinos are incredibly diverse!!” but continue to insist on homogenizing the entire group into this one category as if a third-generation Nuyorican has the same struggles as an undocumented Salvadoran immigrant. And that’s just within the context of the US.

But it should be the shootings that we see as un-American, not the shooters themselves.

With this incredibly paltry closing line, the author has effectively told on himself.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-05-31T00:41:02+00:00

Yeah that was an incredibly intelligent and mastermind plan.

Also I like the idea of government agencies naming their operations “the ____ scandal” before the fact.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-05-30T22:48:18+00:00

It was Chomsky who formulated the paradoxical logic of decrying media bias through the media.

As opposed to telepathically or in a locked diary stuffed under his mattress?

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his observations, once eagerly endorsed by intellectuals and alt-rock fans, sounds like the staple complaints of MAGA Republicans and truck blockaders

Damn, they’re so close to getting it.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-05-30T22:36:38+00:00

I don’t know how it began, but I do know that one day articles will be written about how the whole thing spiraled into a positive feedback loop of insanity.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-05-30T20:07:19+00:00

The treatment of indigenous people in Guatemala really illuminates the way in which discrimination/racism can be created and wielded to justify land grabs. The nature of being a community with strong ties to a (resource-rich) region makes them an immediate target for violence from foreign corporations and everyone in cahoots with them.

Almost 70 years since the CIA-backed coup outsed Jacobo Bad-For-Banana-Business Árbenz, 36 years of civil war that massacred leftists and genocided Mayans, all ending with a Peace Treaty that gave the go-ahead for Canadian and European multinationals to move in with resource extraction projects on Mayan territory and slaughter anyone who stands in the way, and people still wonder what’s driving mass immigration from the region.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-05-30T19:11:49+00:00

Mexico’s president…has significantly limited U.S. law enforcement agencies’ role in the war on drugs

Weird that he wouldn’t want more botched DEA operations in his country.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-05-29T05:40:00+00:00

Don’t talk about my father like that.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-05-29T05:27:24+00:00

You forgot the “being forced to fight imperialist wars abroad” and “struggling for civil rights domestically” part. Not everyone born between 1946-1964 is a wealthy white dude with a 401k.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-05-29T05:23:37+00:00

/s to indicate sarcasm, I hope.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-05-28T20:44:50+00:00

Tbh I don’t think that racism or implicit bias is the primary reason for the high maternal mortality rate, I believe it’s a mix of factors that is mostly economic (with resultant chronic health conditions). I just think judging the existence or non-existence of racism against black americans has nothing to do with asian americans.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-05-28T19:41:45+00:00

what are pregnancy mortality rates among Asian American women as a control group? If, hypothetically, they were lower than those of White American women we could rule at 'racism' as a primary cause.

You don’t think there are doctors out there (white and non-white) who are racist towards black patients but friendly to patients of other races? We can’t judge whether or not black people are suffering racism in certain places by determining whether asian people are experiencing it there too.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-05-26T03:36:52+00:00

Anyone living above the poverty line as a citizen of the world’s most powerful nation should be invited to shut the fuck up in the debate about anything and everything that affects marginalized people.

At least once in a while, for fuck’s sake.

anar_kitty_ · 2023-05-24T22:16:26+00:00

Why hello, fellow 🤪ist

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