Tuesday 28 February 2023

Censorship -- first Roald Dahl, now Dilbert (Scott Adams)

Last week the victim was a kids-lit author, this week a cartoonist:  https://vancouversun.com/news/world/media-drop-dilbert-comic-after-creators-black-hate-group-remark/wcm/cfc72a46-200d-4ee2-aa28-81211ff6059d

Media de-platforming is itself a version of hate -- hate by censorship.

Some ethnic groups are allowed to denounce "hate", others are not. (Blacks accusing whites of hate nevertheless eagerly hate them back.) It's part of the "privileged" vs "marginalized" rhetoric that plays out in social discourse.  

Censorship is a lost cause anyway: governments and corporations can ban speech but they can't ban emotion. They can only replace hate speech with hate silence. People feel what they feel. 



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