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Offline BC_cheque

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Re: Woke Culture
« on: August 06, 2021, 01:29:08 am »
I think this quote is what it all comes down to:

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Chief Constable Mark Roberts, National Police Chiefs’ Council Football Policing lead, said the investigation was proceeding “at pace”.

“There are people out there who believe they can hide behind a social media profile and get away with posting such abhorrent comments,” Roberts said.

“They need to think again – we have investigators proactively seeking out abusive comments in connection to the match and, if they meet a criminal threshold, those posting them will be arrested.”

It's similar to kimmy's post on the 'progressive' thread where she felt twitter users abuse posters who don't conform with progressive ideals.  I argued there and I will argue now, that social media has made us rude because we say and do things we would never do in person. 

We (myself included) go anonymous so that we don't have to worry about employers or neighbours seeing our posts but I think a lot of people are taking the anonymity too far.  The article states "207 criminal social media posts identified" so I'm assuming the posts went beyond the typical n-word slur.

Interestingly, the points made by both kimmy and I on that thread turned out to be true.  I argued that abusive social media posters come in every stripe and not just 'progressives'.  But I also see Kimmy's point in that nobody ever got charged for threatening JK Rowling's life so I concede on the double standard.

For what it's worth, I don't think the solution is say wokism is gone too far.  If anything, people threatening JK Rowling's life should ALSO be investigated (instead of racist abuse being shrugged off). 

There certainly is a line that should not be crossed when it comes to freedom of speech.