Evan ProdromouAll human beings have value and deserve basic human rights.
We must work proactively to identify and correct systems that prevent people from exercising their rights.
This isn't complicated and it shouldn't be controversial.
I saw an article about international responses to the antiwar encampments on US college campuses, and one mentioned a French aversion to "wokisme".
I couldn't figure out what that is supposed to mean, so I tried to give my own definition. This is the best I could do.
meduz'@evan French students are also protesting in their campuses. But it’s true the French far-right is taking inspiration from the U.S. far-right, so they also managed to widely spread the use of “woke” in France.
I think the hard part about these ideas for some people is that human rights are universal. "Even *them*?" Yes, even them. "What about...?" Yes, them too. "But surely you can't mean...?" All people, everyone, no exceptions.
Manuel@evan Well, think about a nazi and her right to free speech and you see how that's, as a minumum, controversial. Many other issues are similar, like during the pandemic.
Politics is hard, we can't simplify.
I see your bottom line, and I agree, but we must treat political issues as such.
Politics is hard, we can't simplify.
I see your bottom line, and I agree, but we must treat political issues as such.
Stu Duerson, machina exo deusThere is a perverse natural human reaction here that fights any concept or philosophy that is 'simple'. I've found this true over and over in life, that when you have a 'simple' concept like the Golden Rule, it is not complex enough for the human intellect to feel as if it has exercised its discriminating ability.
We purposefully make things more complex than they need be. We love to see Occam's Razor rust. If reciprocity is simple, we'll construct 'exceptions' to show how smart and discriminating we are.