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by owaty
2856 days ago
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I understand that the point of view that "kill all men" is not hate speech exists, and it's ok to interview someone who holds that view. But when the hosts themselves started talking about how it's not hate speech like it's a very reasonable view to hold, I was a bit shocked. I never enjoyed radiolab or listened to much of it before, but I used to think it was a legit show with respectable hosts, even if I didn't like the format. Would they also say "kill all Americans" is not hate speech because Americans are not "historically oppressed"? Sure, it's safer to talk about Japanese in China on the American radio. (I haven't listened to the whole episode yet, in case they address it later.) |
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The fact is that many media people are racists and these people and their fellow travelers don't like it being pointed out that they are being hypocrites. Some of them think being white males themselves is an exemption from criticism - except there are so many historical examples of self hating peoples who supported the people attacking them that it would make your head spin. I remember Scott Alexander, usually a level headed person as you could hope to find - unsettled by what he was reading about the Jewish refugees who ended up in England during WWII - many of whom were praising Adolf with full awareness of what was happening. There's not much to stop self hate going from signalling to malignant.
If you look around you won't notice many people speaking out against it, that's because it's mainstreamed, it is the we've always been at war with Eurasia. These people are very confident and very stupid.
The moderation mechanism on websites such as this feeds back into this echo chamber too, because I'm aware that every thing I say will be under exacting scrutiny but I'll regularly see violations of the rules I'd never get away with. Rule violations have to be extraordinary to reach a moderators's inbox if they are in the general spirit of the group believes.