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[–]Britishbulldog 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

This terrifies me. In one fell swoop women are erased. Feel horrible for American women and girls. You’ve gotta fight this. I’m also scared. The US leads the world, and I’m terrified others will follow. While Liz Truss is in office us Brits are fine, and hopefully we can live up to our nickname of TERF island, but I worry for those outside of the UK.

[–]our_team_is_winning 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's funny to me that many UK posters are saying they're worried about the US because I had thought the UK was getting hit with extreme Woke laws even worse than we are. I think we're all in danger actually. But I'd read that UK police were going to people's houses over what they wrote on facebook (just general comments on the state of things, not death threats or something).

I thought the First Amendment could protect us, but it's being eroded. When they survey university students about free speech, the majority in some polls say "hate speech isn't protected; we need restrictions on speech" -- that's scary.

And enforcement is so biased. All those "rape the TERFS" comments are left up while "Men aren't women" gets the person banned for life.

[–]scrantonstranglr 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The idea of hate speech needs to be extinguished already. It's dangerous because one group will decide for the rest what is ok to say and what will get you banned/fined/lose your job/de-platformed. They're going to have no one to turn to though when their opinions all of a sudden aren't the "right" ones. Oh yes, the extremely biased censorship online has my blood boiling daily. We're really in the upside-down world.

[–]purrvana 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I live in Canada (where it's been called "Tranada" due to the extreme woke laws). I was worried about the US because it's the last beacon of hope standing. If the US could fight off all the woke shit, then maybe there's hope for the rest of us. And even if we couldn't change our laws, at least we could move to the US for freedom from it all.

But now that the US is giving in, I feel like it's going to be much much harder for the rest of us to reverse course because now it's normalized on the biggest scale imaginable.

[–]our_team_is_winning 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Canada (where it's been called "Tranada"

Oh that kills me. I haven't been to Canada in many years now, but what I've read online is scary. And then I learn that a lot of it is going on here too, it's just not always well-publicized. I know, I've said for all of America's faults, we fight for freedom. Nobody's going to tell us what we can and can't say. And now there's a generation (or two?) of young people who actively fight FOR censorship and for "cancel culture."

I told a Woke male coworker a few years ago, this is eerily like Communist China's Cultural Revolution, pulling down statues and publicly shaming people, rewriting history -- these Woke young people are a Neo Red Guard, and he of course dismissed me. I really see Communist China as the new "model" for Western countries -- although the Trans agenda is not a leading feature of Chinese government repression, in the West it's one of the elements used to silence people and overturn a well-established way of life (where women have separate faciliites, in this case). I see totalitarianism taking root, and the TRA are key players in that.