Friday, April 14, 2023

She who must not be named

 actually, according to the Urban Dictionary, that quote about Voldemort is being pushed to cancel Harry Potter's mom.

how pervasive is this censorship? Well, Spiked notes:

The queen’s Jubilee book list – featuring 70 titles from across the Commonwealth to celebrate Her Maj’s 70 years on the throne – has one glaring omission. JK Rowling, Britain’s most successful living author, did not make the cut...Any eight-year-old Harry Potter reader could tell you it is not her books that have been judged unworthy – it is Rowling herself, for holding the ‘wrong’ views.

the Economist (10 2021) says now one is not allowed to use the word "woman" including how medical journals, which have pushed political stuff in the past, are now behind censoring that word in their scientific articles.

Bodies with vaginas” is an odd way to refer to half the human race. Yet it was the quote that the Lancet, a medical journal, chose to feature on the cover of its latest issue, telling readers that “historically, the anatomy and physiology” of such bodies had been neglected. After complaints about dehumanising language, the Lancet apologised. But it is not alone. A growing number of officials and organisations are finding themselves tongue-tied when it comes to using the word “woman”.

 She is not the only one being censored of course.

GetReligion blog, a blog that reports on how reporters don't "get religion" in their articles, actually names a reporter for repeatedly posting biased articles on religion, where the religious point of view of the conflict is downplayed or ignored.

are there articles out there on how the US is pushing gender ideology on conservative nations in Africa and Asia? Often doing so by threatening to withdraw aid money? HeritageFoundation article notes this. 

But this resentment is real. 

and you might not pick it up by reading the often liberally oriented English language press.

For example, the full court press against Duterte by the MSM and international organizations didn't stop him from being very popular, because ordinary people didn't form their opinions on the MSM... many based their support of him because they felt safer on the street, and more knew someone killed by drugs or by a druggie in a crime than killed by crooked or overly zealous cops.

Similarly, when the US pushes various policies that stress gay rights, divorce, abortion, etc. as human righst and ties their financial aid to countries only if they obey and change their laws, it causes resentment.

And then people wonder why the US is unpopular and some countries are turning to China for financial and economic help that isn't linked to accepting ideas seen as immoral or destructive of local cuture.

I  should note that here in the Philippines, baclas, cross dressers, tomboys and trans are seen as part of the family and accepted as such, but this has nothing to do with what seems to be behind the western craziness whose aim is destroying the family. It might be trendy to push it to  students in the USA or universities in other countries,  but many who are aware of the importance of the family might not worry about the rights of Baclas to quietly do their thing, but they might think that is it wrong to push perversion as a way to destroy normality in the name of freedom.

But there is a phrase for pushing such ideas as normal to destroy the family:  Walan Hiya: Without shame.

Wikipedia article on Philippine culture gets it right: things must be put into context.

In his oft-cited 1964 article "Hiya", psychologist Jaime C. Bulatao defines Walang hiya as "recklessness regarding the social expectations of society, an inconsideration for the feelings of others, and an absence of sensitivity to the censures of authority or society."
a lot of the culture war in the USA is just this: being insensitive to the ideas of nomality outside the bubble of the elites.

Oppose them, and you are censored and called a hater, and because few deplorables are violent, it's okay.

But I am reminded of an African proverb: Even a small snake has a tooth.


being tagged as hate speech in one... two...three

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