| Jaicee said: Other "conservative" opinions I have are related to concerns for the safety, the mental and physical health and well-being, of girls and women in particular. Like you absolutely cannot call yourself a progressive today unless you support legalizing prostitution and maintaining the relatively unregulated status of online pornography, for example. To object to these things is considered a form of hate (you hate "sex workers") because the progressive left views these things as labor issues rather than as women's issues; issues that affect all women, not just those in the trade. I just completely disagree with that logic, as frankly so do most people in general I think you'll find. I have similar opinions about stuff like commercial surrogacy that liberals and progressives invariably support and demand the legality of today. My negative opinion of transgenderism is guided by similar concerns about the real-world harm to women and girls in particular that can be done if public policy reaches a place of ignoring people's biological sex. (Illustration of what I mean.) Speaking of that, I'm also concerned about the politicization of what speech is permitted and not. (Example.) So I mean a lot of my so-called "right wing" opinions are in fact motivated precisely by an aversion to tolerating male violence and sexual exploitation as a price for some warped idea of social inclusion. |
I am not quite sure if I understand the connection of the politicization of permitted speech and a Barnes and Nobles book display... Barnes and Nobles is a private corporation and it is in their right to choose want they want to and not want to display. Demanding the opposite would be a violation of their freedom of speech. Besides, they still sell Rowling's books, so I am not sure what the problem is. On the other hand, conservatives have stated their intention to burn library books because it contains speech they do not like. Is that not a more serious and existential issue? There's been numerous cases of butch lesbians being harassed by men and gender critical activists because of the campaign by both to reinforce traditional gender norms which causes real world harm to women everywhere. The reason I point this out is because your arguments about free speech and security, while not invalid by any means, can easily be flipped the other way around to make the same point from the other perspective...
