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[–]Sun_bear 25 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 0 fun26 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Janice Turner is such a good writer, I'm so glad she is on our side.

[–]jet199 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So funny that all of Owen Jones's mob are saying "the snowflake alt right shouldn't moan about censorship" when I'm pretty sure Janice is a Labour party member and used to write for the Guardian.

https://twitter.com/VictoriaPeckham/status/1281918453553692672?s=19

[–][deleted] 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's this regression from the concept of truth I find the most harmful - this idea that there can exist a subjective version of truth - my truth. Truth is not a tricky concept - does the concept or the ideological align with reality or the material? I know America was founded on religious freedom, and, as such, we've protected the ideological - so long as it is a handful of specific religions. In essence, we've created a society which holds certain philosophies above the law by offering protection and exemptions from certain laws to those who believe in those ideas. We've created a world in which creationism must be considered alongside evolution. By doing this, we've opened the door to all ideologies being potentially as true as fact. That's why we have anti-science beliefs breeding on the left, and I wish we would start pushing back against protected ideologies and this bizarre concept of your truth, my truth, subjective truth.

[–]HarlanRogers 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Outstanding article. I can only hope the hubris from the likes of Owen Jones will serve to bite them in the ass eventually.

[–]vitunrotta 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Excellently put. This needs to be shouted from the rooftops.

[–]Elvie-Heterodoxy 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I needed to read this today. Now just give me the chutzpah to post it on my facebook for my friends and family to read....

[–]1352DogwoodAvenue 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"The worst of cancel culture is not a high-profile career assassination but what follows. Silence: the deadening effect upon institutions or individuals scared into self-censorship in case they too face an angry throng."

[–]Realwoman 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Is this published somewhere? It's written very well!

[–]Regina 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Janice is an award winning writer for the Times in London. She just won the George Orwell prize 2020 for her journalism and was uk journalist pf the year 2019. So yeh. She is outstanding and one of the great Newspaper writers working at the moment anywhere. We are blessed to have her.

[–]Realwoman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Do you have a link? I'd love to save it

[–]ferfaffle[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)