June 24th
…another kindred spirit: Lana Polansky. Who could put six shots into the word ‘censorship’ before it hit the dirt:
What [Beckles]’s saying is that the media which displays problematic material for the sole purpose of using it to entertain, or does so uncritically, has this nasty habit of normalizing or trivializing the thing it is portraying. As a result, this feeds into our perception of those concepts and informs our worldview. This has been true of all human culture since time immemorial. On the other hand, we self-censor all the time. This is not a call to “bowdlerize”
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