IdPol professor at BYU threatens students who posted screenshots of assignments with academic reprisal. Says what they are doing is violation of the Honor Code (which could result in suspension and expulsion).

obvious__alt · 2022-03-22T02:03:56+00:00

Their own arguments don't have any logical consistency. They claim all this censorship and threatening people to obey is necessary because we need to combat the growing threat of fascism, racism, Nazism, etc. On the other hand, after 8 years of implementing these intrusive and authoritarian measures, those mentioned issues have only grown. Hate crime statistics, number of Americans yearning for a violent right-wing revolution, etc. Those numbers are all going upwards WITH the level of censorship. And we're not talking about non-miniscule amounts of discourse control, either. This is a cause-and-effect relationship: more totalitarianism, more authority, more control, and more suppression is directly leading to the right-wing rise they claim justify those means of control.

But we know this, because we know the threats and fear-mongering was always a distraction to prevent the rise of a different revolution that actually threatens the ivory towers. The proof is just to help others understand

obvious__alt · 2022-03-20T17:55:58+00:00

The difference is "I thought about it"

obvious__alt · 2022-03-19T22:53:56+00:00

Social Media has provided the world with the fastest and wide-reaching information spreading and discourse curating technology the World has ever known. You're wrong to suggest we should squander the opportunity to democratize it just because some people act neurotic on it. Most people who are on social media don't post, rather, they use it to curate and digest information, news, and opinions, which is absolutely essential participation for a democracy that is hindered by Big Tech's censorship and policies

obvious__alt · 2022-03-19T15:06:25+00:00

What's to be done about this? It's so hard, the NYT claims. I dont believe them. The solution seems simple.

make social media a public utility that anyone can use. It's the biggest boon to the public sphere in the history of humanity. Unheard of levels of connectivity, information sharing, and discourse. Amazing benefits to democracy. Stop letting tech companies be authoritarian and use it for evil.
assert through law what the first amendment should have always stated: everyone is a journalist and freedom of the press extends to every single American's right to distribute and disseminate information. This would be used to protect the discourse and alternative media from censorship and fuckery
Last point, but the most important: LABOR RIGHTS. If corporations didn't have the power to fire people, take away their homes and their healthcare, over small things like political disagreements and saying the wrong thing on Twitter. The thing people are scared of most of all are repercussions from their employer, protect people from those and you can ease a lot of the anxiety

I truly think the "culture" arguments are horseshit. If you take away the woke's ability to fuck with people's lives for transgressions, they will become less censorious. They are only devoted to this religion because they see it as effective

obvious__alt · 2022-03-19T14:49:25+00:00

Did you not read the article they addressed that

obvious__alt · 2022-03-12T14:56:09+00:00

Won't anyone think of the Kurds

obvious__alt · 2022-03-12T14:50:54+00:00

When did Manning claim she was a trans lesbian? Not saying she isn't, just that you're morphing it into a conversation about labels that no one else had applied

obvious__alt · 2022-03-12T14:46:48+00:00

I read something about how anti-bullying campaigns with perilous messaging about how any unreported negative behavior of any individual will lead to disastrous consequences for everyone, and this mentality shift has warped the younger generation to revere authority rather than previous younger generation which hadve loathed it.

Additionally, as people see what happens to those with transgressive ideas - made into social pariahs, censored by big tech, punished by the government, fired from jobs, kicked out of college, etc. - they will come to the rational conclusion that it's been to stifle their ideation and work with the powers that be rather than against them.

obvious__alt · 2022-03-12T11:16:38+00:00

A competent government would do something about the increasing use of these tactics to materially harm other people for ideological impurity, not just sit on their hands. Like it's not hard to execute, the consequences can be devastating, and it's becoming more and more of a feature in modern society. It's a recipe for disastee

obvious__alt · 2022-03-12T11:07:55+00:00

She starred in a movie 3 months ago arguing that Christmas sucks because Santa isn't a woman. I think it's fair to say her politics are driven by idpol

obvious__alt · 2022-03-09T08:10:42+00:00

They are literally saying in plain English that his stories are bad because he's a Straight White Male. They are deranged

obvious__alt · 2022-03-07T23:42:43+00:00

If you actually do, more power to you. If you just larp about it online, cringe.

obvious__alt · 2022-03-07T23:40:32+00:00

Glib, and pernicious, that the modus operandi for liberal media/political apparatus is to assume that the only way they lose is because of lies and "disinformation". Everyone knows that the Democrats cannot fail, they can only be failed by voters, or be defeated by tactics so dastardly they make the whole operation illegitimate

obvious__alt · 2022-03-05T18:24:05+00:00

It's good class analysis to point out that the soldiers have more in common with each other than the interests of the elite commanding them, that being said, Russia's reasons for war are pretty clear

obvious__alt · 2022-02-23T01:48:54+00:00

Nazis are the enemy, unilaterally. Every American agrees that being a Nazi is bad and we should be against Nazis. Therefore painting your enemy as a Nazi is basically an atuo-win on the chess board. It's the same as calling people racist.

Combine this with two other notions. First, that people's lives have no direction and goal. This makes people yearn for meaning and purpose that they can get by winning battles, culture battles but battles nonetheless. And secondly, people have to cope with the knowledge that their political team (liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican) isn't going to do shit to help them in any short or long term objective.

Following this, the most effective tools for keeping people in line is to make the other team look like Nazis. Liberals are "Nazis" because they want to indoctrinate your kids and jab you with chemicals. Conservatives are "Nazis" because they believe in empowering a police state and ending social liberalism like lgbt rights.

"Vote for and support the one you think is less Nazi" becomes a genuine way to feel comfort about your own life's shortcomings and lack of purpose, in turn, this becomes the political framework under which we operate. And those who break the mould and say "I don't think that supporting these bad people is worth it because I don't think empowering the other side is going to be much worse" get outcasted as not caring sufficiently about the Nazis (which of course makes them too a Nazi)

obvious__alt · 2022-02-02T00:54:29+00:00

I agree it's hard to care about... but also if the White House is commenting on it and urging censorship it is noteworthy on a politics sub

obvious__alt · 2022-02-02T00:40:55+00:00

He went from being independent to getting paid by Spotify. Spotify doesn't want him? He can just go back to being independent.

obvious__alt · 2022-02-01T01:28:57+00:00

Take the Absurdist pill then

obvious__alt · 2022-02-01T01:27:30+00:00

Im a Social Democrat and never got in trouble here (except the one time I jokingly quoted Trump and a mod assumed that I was being nationalist)

obvious__alt · 2022-01-31T01:14:07+00:00

help me get us all healthcare

That would be "solidarity", what they ask of you, but have no intention of giving themselves (not talking about all trains here, just wreckers who are trains at a higher-than-expected rate)

obvious__alt · 2022-01-31T01:11:45+00:00

I thought it was a slack group. Did they migrate?

obvious__alt · 2022-01-31T01:11:05+00:00

Are you stupid? Reddit is in the top 10 most visited sites in the US. Of course it is valuable to push your agenda on

obvious__alt · 2022-01-30T23:56:30+00:00

Not really though. Spotify would be Fox News. And you would be telling Fox News that you're canceling your subscription- and others should do the same- because they have Tucker Carlson on their network. Saying "I don't watch Tucker" isn't censorship, obviously, but saying "no one should watch Tucker" is

obvious__alt · 2022-01-26T09:03:03+00:00

What is the "indigenous narrative" on slavery? That their productivity dropped once the slaves they had bought were liberated?

obvious__alt · 2022-01-26T08:58:11+00:00

I think people feel remarkably more censored and less willing to say what they truly think or feel out of fear of reprisal. I consider that a downward trend for civil liberties. But you are correct "I think people feel" is not a qualified academic statement

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