Lil’ question for the scientists and science communicators and defenders of liberty who thought woke moral scolds were impinging so badly on their freedom to be assholes. Who is censoring the hell out science right now? Whose side is doing that? I know, bring up the way your fave race “scientists” could only sometimes get published in mainstream sources, cool cool. But on this scale? How about the way they’re gutting universities? Destroying the Department of Education? Libraries? This sound like the work of people who care about academia, enlightenment, the advancement of the human species? Sophisticated discourse, holding up the hem of your toga as you walk through the agora? Is this how you saw yourselves?
Are you starting to understand what censorship actually is? Are you starting to understand how misogyny, transphobia, and racism will always lead into fascism? How there’s no good and actually cool version of any of those things? Growing a tiny spark of self-awareness yet? The clock is ticking. You’re running out of time to breathe the air of freedom you’ve so stridently clamored for. Anything you might think say or do that isn’t in support of the party line, better get your freak on while you still can.
Remember those guys painted out of Stalin’s photograph when they became not stalinist enough? By supporting this situation, you’ve put yourself in a more dangerous position than most. Does this feel like freedom to you? Does this look like what you imagined it would, throwing off the shackles of woke?
I’m thinking of Jerry Coyne and Ophelia Benson here. I’m not gonna host an answer by one of those humanoid tools of fascism, but I wonder vaguely what that would look like. I wonder if OB feels like this is the dawning of a new feminist paradise, feels completely blameless in the use of transphobia as a wedge issue to establish Gilead. I wonder if JC feels good about the state of science now, feels completely justified in working to achieve that egregious new normal.
I don’t wonder enough to read their sniveling bootlicking shit, but maybe one of you could summarize it for me in the comments, heh.
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Not me!
You don’t have enough money to pay me to do that. Nobody does.
Jerry Coyne banned me from Why Evolution is True about fifteen years ago when I pushed back on his assertion that saying mean things about the actions of the Israeli government was the same thing as anti-Semitism, so I am not interested in diving back into that sewer, and when Ophelia flounced out of FTB, I had no interest in following her future career, so, nope, can’t help you with that.
Dear Bébé Mélange,
Jumped here from your comment on PZ’s article. Thanks for the thoughtful article here. You are so correct when you say “misogyny, transphobia, and racism will always lead into fascism”.
But, how can we resist becoming fascists when all these MUMP* cult members are giving us free
dumb**! And, the chief magat has given us liberation day! (sarcasmus maximus)I admit I am woke (as opposed to
brain dead** like the rtwingnuts) and a proponent of DEI. But, I would rather have odious words included if it prevents censorship.*Professor Timothy Snyder: MUsk+truMP=MUMP
**edited by beeb per my probably outdated and overapplied policy on ableist language. o, the irony on this one.
I wasn’t around for Ophelia’s flounce. Let me guess though: a TERF vs. real actual progressives rift?
Same thing happened at WHTM eons ago, when the TERFs and the real actual feminists came to loggerheads. Looks like it’s the TERFs who lost both times and were driven into the wilderness …
Good riddance.
I reviewed your doomerism policy and hope that since my ‘doom and gloom’ comment (#4 above) was directed at the highly bigoted ‘destruction derby’ running this country now, and wasn’t a childish food fight with other commenters that i’m o.k.
I respect your work, so, don’t hesitate to scold me if I get out of hand
@#5 Bekenstein Bound
“Let me guess though: a TERF vs. real actual progressives rift?”
Yep.
beks – cripes i remember the last time i looked at whtm comments i saw terf slime. somebody who had to get banned from atheism plus and this blog as well, back in the day. i haven’t been there in a long time and it doesn’t surprise me futrelle got rid of em. the wilderness where benson resides has many fellow creepy cultists offering her love every day, i’m sure. easy to imagine oneself righteous in such company, i suppose.
sherm – my scoldery will just be editing in a line thru the ableist lingo per my other sidebar policy; don’t sweat it.
moar jazz and rob – this is the wisdom. self-care, yo.
Dear Bébé Mélange,
thanks, I appreciate your edits which keep me in line with your policies. I’m still learning how to diplomatically, appropriately express myself here (and everywhere else) and tone down my anger.
And, one source of that anger is that I am still so frustrated that there is so little tolerance and acceptance for anyone that is outside the fascists’ tiny bigoted mindset.
thanks for understanding, amigo
… and cue TERFs, having taken over the British Isles, now getting fuckin’ Supreme Court rulings in their favor.
first i heard of it. why u gotta do me like this, maaan.