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To a great extent, yes. I often have the impression that this lamenting "My voice don't get heard, and that's bc I am a minority" is neglecting the contents. Maybe people chose NOT to listen to you not bc you are memeber from a minority group, but possibly what you talk is basically rubbish.

It goes way further, bc pretty much everything in those groups seems to revovle around that "minority" status, thus mirror-imaging the stigma - or often imagined stigma.

This is basically institutioned corruption. The Trump presidency is shaping up to be first and foremost a Kleptocracy.

That "no platform" thing again is very easy to understand. Let's say you organise a (panel) debate on some "controversial" topic, and bill that as an "open debate" - then you'd better invite some people who will have differing opinions, and those opinions being somewhat backed by facts/arguments...

It's a thin line bc fascists are per definition militants thus violence prone but likely I wouldn't support this either, bc this often gives the said groups a "borrowed importance". The spreading via media thing you won't be able to prevent in this age and day anymore anyways, thanx to youtube...

What do you mean by that? Are you referring to the civil war like situations in the 1920s or 1930s? To be honest, don't really get this question.

I don't support it, bc I think it's conceding self defeat. But if a certain groupd doesn't want a specific person to appear on a panel or whatever it's their right to exclude the person in question.

The concept of "free speech" means you and everybody else is allowed to talk about whatever you want (as long as you don't violate specific laws), which is the "equal" part. No body (neither the special snowflake types nor the right wingers) have the ultimate right to speak or publish wherever...

On the other hand "safe spaces" seem to resonance well with the obsession large parts of the public has developed with "safety" in general. Safety is one of the sales pitches of today.

Being "offended" by whatever is already a self fulfilling self-victimisation.

Admit it, Luka. You are only in it for the 10 000 posts

It's no coincidence this "safe space" fad is popping up now. Those kids want to extend their closed (insert any current social media fad) groups into the real world (or their "real world" which is colleges). Of course, they'll have a rude awekening after graduation, exacerbated exactly BECAUSE...

does this youtube clip for for you? It doesn't for me, regardless which device I am tryin to watch it. This smells of a conspiracy!!!

I mean, the name of that company alone is gold "BlackRock" - straight out of a conspiracy novel. 🔥

"Old" Media doesn't really "lie" tho - lying means intentionally say unfactual things - sure thing, if you read the financial times you'd hardly see a critical word bout the elite/establishment (meaning the actual elite, those who run the economy). Problem today rather is, that a lot of people...

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I don't consider the article "very good at all" exactly bc the author bags on "classic media" (rightly so, and there I agree), but doesn't say a word why it fell for sensationalism, is dropping good journalists/journalism etc. and how this could be reversed. Just demanding "get more trustworthy...

Plus he's demanding full disclosure of sources (if I remember correctly, can't be bothered to re-read it), well, in some cases you'd better not go that far - "Deep Throat" and the Watergate scandal is a prime example.

It's all in my reply, read it.

Another "very good" article that's not very good at all. The basic idea of it is that "classic" media is prone to spread fake news themselves and that press scutiny needs to be reinforced. Furthermore, the author implies that people actually would go back to a more trustworthy "classic" media...