If it passes, they could go after customers for speech "offenses."
https://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/britains-war-on-speech-comes-for
Hi everyone, I haven't been active in Solid Ground for a while, but I am still alive and kicking! I now work as personal assistant to a mind-bendingly weird and diva-esque artist-lip-syncher-performer named Fiona Blueberry. She is blissfully clueless about politics and seems to be completely unaware of the culture wars. Working with her is a breath of fresh air. If you need a mood lift, I encourage you to watch this video we made together. Happy 4th, everyone! Wishing you fun/love/peace on this holiday. :) www.fionablueberry.com
Our very own @YayRain (after having imbibed some golden nectar), shares with us yet one more problem with CRT....
Complicated and lengthy, but it may offer a slightly different angle on things...
"Postmodernity can be seen as a celebration of fragmentation, and a terror of essentialism; the idea that some things are inherent and unchanging. Now that postmodernism has run its course, the pull toward essentialism in the collective unconscious is potent and alluring. It’s also inevitable. ...
"Postmodern theorists are right to point out that who gets to decide what is true matters, and that the power to narrate reality is often unevenly distributed. However, they threw the baby out with the bathwater by assuming that truth is always something made up by humans. As psychologist Philip Tetlock has argued, people’s commitment to values like love, honour and justice is often viewed as independent of culture. Even if economic pressures often force people to trade those ‘sacred values’ in what he calls ‘taboo trade-offs,’ we generally have a sense that some things, like the sacredness of human life, go ...
