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sophiaserpentia ([personal profile] sophiaserpentia) wrote2005-12-08 04:09 pm

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Hmm, somehow a few people took my reposting of Moby's blog entry about misogyny in music to mean i support censorship.

When did i ever promote censorship? I don't support it, and neither, apparently, does Moby.

How is it that people hear someone saying, "People should own up to the ramifications of their words," and translate this into calling for censorship?

A few months ago i wrote about a phenomenon i've noticed, in that people speaking outside of the established viewpoint of public discourse are automatically presumed to have an agenda. This is one of the many hidden ways in which language is used against egalitarian radicals -- you are programmed to make all kinds of assumptions when you hear certain things that sometimes have nothing to do with what is actually being said.

[identity profile] sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com 2005-12-08 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid i don't. It throws me for a loop every time. I'm hoping to build up a set of tagged and bookmarked journal entries that i can link back to everytime a knee-jerk accusation comes up, but it takes years to build that up.

[identity profile] alobar.livejournal.com 2005-12-08 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You ever get ljArchive to work for you? I seem to remember it was not working for you. I use it all the time to find past entries and comments I want to point out to people.

[identity profile] sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com 2005-12-08 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I got it to work, finally. It may have been an OS issue, since it didn't work on my old machine with Win98 but works on my XP machine.

[identity profile] collie13.livejournal.com 2005-12-08 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you checked out [livejournal.com profile] ginmar's LJ? She's got some very good writings on the subject. Ranty and pointy, which I enjoy but don't envy the flameage it generates towards her; sometimes incredibly verbose; but she always makes me think, and I value that.