Stephen Jay Hawkings
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To take it back to pronouns, the whole thing doesn't bother me but it is pretty nuanced. It's so out there that even the woke's trip themselves up with it. Sometimes "live and let live" is fine but woke people don't want that. I think its been said but being woke is like a new religion to people because so many people have given up on things to believe in.
The fact all these conversations are happening are proof of how great the world and the west is. These people are not thankful enough because these arent conversations in super difficult places to live like say Belarus or wherever else you want to pick. Same with anxiety, people who live in Sudan don't have time for generalized anxiety disorder. I think some of these problems and forces are created, lets fix a problem that isnt really there or at least doesnt exist in a world thats not almost perfect.
Hit the nail on the head there.
As I've said if people want to use their preferred pronouns I don't care, more power to them and I understand why some want to. I do the draw the line at someone asking me to use my pronouns (which is something I don't subscribe to so it's pointless) or in a situation where having to use other peoples pronouns becomes compelled speech ie. the Canadian thing.
I do agree the west is far from perfect, but it's the best we've got. Certain people have completely lost the run of themselves. All of these woke groups who have banded together, including neo-feminists, want to to tear down western civilization and rebuild their own utopia where they hold all the power because they see the west as a racist, tyrannical patriarchy. It's an unhinged ideology which doesn't hold up under scrutiny, but instead of debating they want to shut any dissenting voices down.
It may seem like a small minority of loons, but they sure are loud and influential and have taken hold of academia in the US and Canada, and now it's spreading to this part of the world.
Censorship, cancel culture and compelled speech is not "progressive".