Internet - Moderation

Internet - Moderation

The trouble with communities is that at some point, they grow large enough to attract undesireable elements.

The actual trouble is that we have this notion that it is acceptable and a foregone conclusion that there will always be undesireable elements given a certain criticality of human perspective and opinion. As though the perpetual state of the human condition is to eventually default to hatred and ignorance.

Are we not troubled by that as a thought?

That given enough free opinions, our communities automatically become toxified?

Politics - Fuck All Lives Matter

Politics - Fuck All Lives Matter

With the recent spate of news regarding "Black Lives Matter", there again is the ever present rebuttal that "All Lives Matter." This happens over, and over. It happens with gender, it happens with culture, it happens with religion, it happens with sexual orientation. The thing is, like others have posted, until we started saying #BlackLivesMatter nobody ever said #AllLivesMatter. Until we had #GayPride, there was never a #HeteroSexualPrideDay. #WhiteHistoryMonth sounds ludicrous against #BlackhistoryMonth, and the idea of #MensRights makes us all cringe.

Here's the problem. All Lives Matter, is 'strictly true'. But it's also tone deaf. It's tone deaf because it's not about finding nuance, it's about maintaining status quo. It's about silencing the very real problems people have with what is going on in society right now. GeekAesthete wrote this about why it's not okay.