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Speech codes don’t fight bigotry, they nurture it
Inverted Planet
English - March 11, 2021 23:56 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBGovernment Religion & Spirituality Judaism Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Instead of fighting bigotry, they are imposing speech codes. This isn't halting bigotry, but encouraging it.
Officer Delvin White of the Tampa, FL police force was fired — for speaking to another black man, and about other black men, in a way that is common in the black community. Woke leftists should be outraged — but they’re not. This is because they have replaced the fight against racism with the imposition of ridiculous speech codes. And because he violated the speech code (in a way millions of young black men do every day), he’s out of a job. You can see the video of him arresting a trespasser, but there’s a language warning and not just for the N-word.
I don’t think it is any more fair that Meyers Leonard of the Miami Heat has been suspended for a week, and fined $50,000, for using the word “k*ke,” a slur which I, as a Jewish rabbi, am presumably allowed to use — but I won’t spell out lest some podcast platform decide to cancel me!