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The Home Office could demand more surveillance abilities for law enforcement, but here it is difficult to see what they could ask for that they don’t already have.
The net effect is a chilling of casual sexual interactions, especially amongst young people. And so, why is anyone surprised? And why doesn’t the media want to talk about it?
The problem isn’t simply one of political imbalance, an absence of parity between Left and Right voices, but the extent to which humanities departments have become politicized.
While satire is often controversial, it has become increasingly common for it to be accused of bigotry where none exists.
Issues such as unfair tax structures, government welfare towards banks and corporations, a lack of protection for the common citizen, and gaps in the social safety net are all social justice issues.
There’s nothing to do but keep on going, or else nothing will change. If we allow these threats, these fears, to shut us down, things won’t change.
One of the forefathers of the modern internet, John Gilmore, famously remarked that the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
Then institutions of higher learning will again be a place for what they were originally meant, the exchange of ideas and verifiable knowledge.
Nowadays, it’s morally and intellectually permissible to denigrate a group of people based on skin colour and gender, so long as they’re white and male.
These educators apparently either don’t know or don’t care about ridicule from working adults, many of whom are alumni of the very institutions in question.
A unified progressive opposition to Trump can come about only via a return to true progressive principles.
The entire narrative of the Western left is one of structural, systemic exploitation by the forces of patriarchy, economics, and social-conservatism.
The only way to head mobs off at the pass is for individuals and institutions to resist them.
If this information about an American leader were true, it would be frankly unprecedented. At the same time, the information is also extremely suspect.
There’s a solution, but it’s not one that most feminists want to hear.