RE: WARNING!!!
October 25, 2015 at 11:23 am
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2015 at 11:23 am by Regina.)
Trigger warnings are totally ridiculous.
Guess what, you're going to run into things in life that offend you. That's life. You can't expect everyone to go out of their way to warn you, or sugar-coat what they're going to say just to please you.
This girl at work the other week had this wonderful moment about "oh I don't use foul language" because I let the word "shit" slip out. It's the way people act like we've never heard these things before, censoring swear-words like "f**k" in newspapers as though none of us can work out what that word is saying.
Guess what, you're going to run into things in life that offend you. That's life. You can't expect everyone to go out of their way to warn you, or sugar-coat what they're going to say just to please you.
This girl at work the other week had this wonderful moment about "oh I don't use foul language" because I let the word "shit" slip out. It's the way people act like we've never heard these things before, censoring swear-words like "f**k" in newspapers as though none of us can work out what that word is saying.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
