Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : boraxman
From : Jeff
Date : Sat Jan 29 2022 09:47:39

On 29 Jan 2022, boraxman said the following...
 bo>  Je> Then don't espouse hateful views. It's really not that difficult.

 bo> I'll decide what is hateful for myself, not you.  People attribute
 bo> "Hate" to everything now.  Even JK Rowling was called hateful.  So many
 bo> people have been castigated for things which are not hateful.

I'm not the arbiter of what is and isn't hate. Society is. In the example you
presented earlier, employers are.

 bo> I take it your American, right?  Isn't half your country "deplorable"
 bo> because they voted for an fascist?  At least according to the opinion of
 bo> some, ie, presidential candidates.

That would depend on who you ask.

 bo>  Je> Nonsense. There is plenty of stuff that will be seen and disregarded
 bo>  Je> because there's nothing to it.
 bo> Until someone has an axe to grind.

I can't see how this discussion we're having could be used against either of
us.

 bo>  Je> Nope. Communicate if you wish, or refrain if you wish. There is the
 bo>  Je> possibility that what you saywill be preserved for possibility, but w
 bo>  Je> anyone care what we say here and now? Will anything you've said here
 bo>  Je> cost you future employment? I doubt it.
 bo> Thats not the point.  The point is that I'm pointing out issues,
 bo> malfeasance and you're just finding excuses for it.

And I'm pointing out that people are ultimately responsible for their own
actions.

 bo> In my opinion, decent human beings would see to it that we maximise our 
 bo> freedom, our privacy, work towards reducing manipulation and suppression
 bo> and witch trials.  I'm looking to reduce the impact of your "cancel
 bo> culture" and bring decency back to society, something I think has been
 bo> lost.

"Cancel culture" has nothing to do with privacy and everything to do with
decency. Our freedom of speech guarantees us neither a forum nor an audience.
That speech deemed hateful by society is denied both is not a loss of
freedom. Do you honestly expect that increased decency will be the result of
maximized freedom to spew hate?

 bo> Maybe the cultural differences between Australia and the USA have grown
 bo> a lot in the last decade or so, and we are just culturally very
 bo> different.

Perhaps, perhaps not. Perhaps we are different as people.

Jeff.

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