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   Maholmire (maholmire@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 12:52:37 JST Maholmire

   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
   I have a question for you @lanodan as a queer person that may be involved with politics in some capacity.
   
   Have you noticed a trend at all in politicians taking advantage of social movements such as feminism, LGBTQA+, and BLM to push harmful rhetoric that radicalizes vulnerable minorities and vindicates them through the promise of more equitable policies. Using the pretense of equality to pass increasingly more authoritarian laws that bolster their power while stripping us of our civil liberties?
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 12:52:36 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @Maholmire One political thing that I've noticed for feminism is a rather old one, you'd have a lot of information (including in schools) about feminism by politicians/intellectuals and basically nothing for feminism by workers. Which has been at least as important if not more.
     
     As for queer stuff… I'd say with the way they've been mostly addressing rich people issues so far and with rainbow-capitalism also being a thing, it's pretty much getting gentrified.
     
     BLM isn't really thing here, could maybe compared to other current movements but they're likely not going to be something politicians/corporations could shove their own politics in, in a way because leaders of both left-wing and right-wing parties got quite out of touch on those issues about ~15 years ago.
     I'd say this part is looking the worst because even politicians (mayor but also assembly) simply aren't being heard and are pretty much being censored by the press (Of course with politicians wanting to censor social media more and more frequently…).
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     Maholmire (maholmire@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 13:06:41 JST Maholmire

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     In regard to the censorship of politicians and people in general, that is really a consequence of the pressure put on society to be politically correct from those radicalized by the aforementioned harmful idealogy. I won't list any particular schools of thought, political parties, or people as the ones responsible for the radicalization.
     
     Though that does conveniently play into their hand by setting the tone in society for everyone else to follow and weaponizing the press to put pressure on the civil servants that may not subscribe to their idealogy. It's like a feedback loop that allows those benefiting from it to manufacture the circumstances necessary to push their policies.
     
     Though a lot of that is just conjecture on my part based on what I've observed so far.
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