A while back, a female Chinese tennis player, Peng Shuai, was on the tour circuit and said she had being sexually assaulted by a high ranking member of the Communist Party.

Then she abruptly returned to China and 'disappeared'...no additional public statements, no news stories about her.

No one had seen or heard from her publicly for a while..folks feared the worst...when she reemerged, her story changed. She claimed not only that there was no abuse, but that she never even made those claims..that everyone was mistaken. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that she was threatened into silence, for fear of harm or death by the Chinese gov't. That's how they do things there. they 'disappear' people for far less.

That's censorship.

Roxane Gay makes a distinction in her latest essay about the difference between censorship and curation:

"When we are not free to express ourselves, when we can be thrown in jail or even lose our lives for speaking freely, that is censorship. When we say, as a society, that bigotry and misinformation are unacceptable, and that people who espouse those ideas don’t deserve access to significant platforms, that’s curation. We are expressing our taste and moral discernment, and saying what we find acceptable and what we do not."

you can read the full essay here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/opinion/culture/joe-rogan-spotify-roxane-gay.html

for a Black male perspective, you can read this one:
https://thegrio.com/2022/01/21/the-problem-with-joe-rogan-and-white-boys/

Argue amongst yourselves; I'm only here to drop knowledge

toodles,
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"I don't speak to provoke. I speak because I think our time on Earth is short and each moment that we are not our truest selves, each moment we say what we do not mean because we imagine that is what somebody what's us to say, then we are wasting our time

"censorship" is one of the most misused terms and misunderstood ideas in this country.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

I mean I agree with what she says but it's a but the threshold for censorship has to be a lot less than what China is doing.


https://twitter.com/keribla/status/1489393212796121098?t=cBWIVlXzstxQ5WuSIcw6cQ&s=09



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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

i find the obsession with Rogan (both positive and negative) weird. there's nothing exceptional about him.

The white house and CDC are responsible for far more disinfo and confusion than Rogan. Im old enough to remember harris and biden talking cash shit about how they dont trust the vaccine.

Spotify is an awful company (always has been) and will not deplatform a cash cow like rogan. What i find disturbing is liberals expecting Spotify to do their bidding and *ahem*...."curate" who is on their platform. What kind of precedent is that setting?

"They used to call me Baby Luke....but now? The whole damn 2 Liiiive Crew."

The idea that when your side tries to limit discussion it's somehow appropriate is wild.
Blue MAGA stay on some bullshit