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In reply to the discussion: The Limits of Free Speech [View all]thucythucy
(7,983 posts)"The system"- in the form of institutionalized racism, sexism, classism and homophobia--is the product of centuries of oppression, and will take a lot of work to change, including legal reform.
In the meantime you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to offer to people oppressed by "the system" today. Rather than support what few tools are available even to begin to combat current oppression--for instance on campuses and in the workplace--you prefer to obsess on the entirely hypothetical and as yet unrealized and far-fetched threat to the "free speech" of white males caught openly discriminating against students with a different skin tone.
This sort of detached and seemingly unsympathetic "analysis" of current realities is at best a distraction, reflecting your own position of privilege. People need redress now, not some tenuous theoretical anarchist analysis that merely serves to question and even undermine the few resources available with which they might begin to get such redress.
So again--since you oppose all "speech codes"--do you oppose someone being prohibited from openly racist taunts at the workplace? And, since you're posting on DU--which also has "speech codes"--do you oppose the existence of MIRT, and the rules here that prohibit openly racist and homophobic and sexist posts? This is another question, posed quite a while back, which you have thus far refused to address.