RE: How does your WV inform your politics?
August 30, 2023 at 2:56 am
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2023 at 3:06 am by FrustratedFool.)
True, there's more work to be done to eradicate bad thinking.
However, by protecting certain groups, like gays for example, both from discrimination and hatespeech, I think society has moved forward in a good direction.
It's hard to argue a counterfactual - would it have been worse or better without hatespeech laws? Impossible to say.
My WV, in this case the acceptance that people are easily manipulated and aren't free agents, informs my political views. I stopped being a freespech extremist and moved towards the European liberal socialist model of harm reduction.
What is your worldview?
However, by protecting certain groups, like gays for example, both from discrimination and hatespeech, I think society has moved forward in a good direction.
It's hard to argue a counterfactual - would it have been worse or better without hatespeech laws? Impossible to say.
My WV, in this case the acceptance that people are easily manipulated and aren't free agents, informs my political views. I stopped being a freespech extremist and moved towards the European liberal socialist model of harm reduction.
What is your worldview?
