Every language has terminology and idioms that may have originated long ago, in the context of derogatory comments or associated with an era when such language may have been viewed as derogatory. There is a list, online, over almost 3,000 words or phrases in the English language, that are considered offensive, or considered offensive in some contexts.
Springfield College issues pronoun guidelines that prohibit referencing “mother”, “father”, “brother”, “sister”, “son” and “daughter” or “husband” and “wife”. You are to use alternatives instead. It is also against their guidelines to say you do not have personal pronoun preferences. The Orwellian speech police now control you every thought.
Experts claim that misinformation is the leading cause of death in the United States. Hah hah.
A legally deaf elderly woman missed a changed gate flight announcement, and after asking several gate agents for assistance, one calls the police. The police then arrest and handcuff her and take her to jail (in a wheelchair). In the jail, she is beaten by a jailer, her arm broken, and she is denied access to healthcare. 3 days later, she is released and undergoes surgery. The DA dropped all charges. Hopefully she sues the bastards back to the stone age. This, though, is why so many today are terrified of the police.
Go to the link, below for this must-read item. The US government and powerful interests developed a powerful censorship operation operating in conjunction with social media companies. It is important to understand how these groups function. They are not publicly engaging with their opponents in an open exchange of ideas. They aren’t asking for a national debate over the limits of the First Amendment. Rather, they are creating blacklists of disfavored people and then pressuring, cajoling, and demanding that social media platforms…
The inventors of “public relations” (the name given to the field after “propaganda” grew out of favor) argued for rule by technocratic elite, thinking that important decisions should be left to “experts” and not democracies.
Youtube censors, probably sitting in a dense urban office building, censored a child’s video of her family’s farm in Canada, saying it presented a child engaged in dangerous activity.
Academics have long maintained they have a “freedom of speech” to pursue whatever they want to pursue in terms of research; this freedom extends to political opinions. In my state, all public sector workers have protection on their off-the-job speech. Private sector workers have no such protections and may be fired or receive negative performance reviews for their off-work speech. Which means when it comes to speech, some have more freedom than others, and that means, for example, that viewpoints of academics and public sector workers could be more influential because others may not be able to counter their comments.
Promoters of social media censorship say it is necessary to combate misinformation and disinformation. But then, who regulates offline speech, such as political hit pieces that arrive via postal mail the week before an election? No one does. In fact, the government regulating either is a First Amendment violation – they cannot regulate our speech.
The US Department of Homeland Security, in cooperation with Facebook and Twitter, activity sought to censor online speech, allegedly using secret back door login portals to make urgent censorship requests.