Why are you calling it “censorship”? Am I supposed to be forced to listen to someone? Am I supposed to associate with everyone?
I grew up as a lonely cishet geek dude, so I get it — it sucks to be made not welcome.
But as much as it sucks to be excluded from spaces, it also sucks to be threatened so often by gendered violence that you can't be sure if someone of that demographic is decent or a danger.
Living on low-level or even high-level alert is exhausting. Wanting that space to breathe is understandable.
Oh and then there's that argument that being exposed to different viewpoints is good for you?
Which is... true to a degree, but not an absolute? Like, you know training, right? The growth occurs in response to strain, but it occurs during periods of rest.
You're not Majin Buu, bro. And some people don't get respite.
Also there's this perverse, and sometimes depraved line of thinking that thinks, “I don't care if people suffer, actually I *want* those people to suffer.”
Like, let's be real here, it's more universal than we'd like to think. I've felt genuine pleasure when I see someone who I thought was deserving get their comeuppance.
That's where schadenfreude comes from. Pleasure from someone else's misfortune. It's a dark emotion, it's sweet and bitter, and too much of it is bad for you.
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@tariqk Yeah. The "I went through hell so others must" is... ridiculous. What about the idea that we make the world continually better for the people that come behind us? Is that... hard to understand?
@benhamill Probably because, in some ways, their viewpoint is so focused on they and theirs that anything else is a threat?
@benhamill That demonstrates said person's experience with suffering, I'm sure.
@tariqk There's some thing, too, about justifying your own suffering by making it into a moral good somehow.