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" ... I’ve been a long-time opponent of the drug war and have believed since I was in college that all drugs should be legalized and regulated. The boundaries between legal and illegal drugs are obviously arbitrary and the law has been used as a cudgel to incarcerate and otherwise disempower minorities and the poor for decades. ... "
" ... So this has quickly become the dumbest controversy of the summer, and I hope that those involved will all take a few minutes to cool off and chill out. A silver lining is that we have people talking about these issues, and I think there's a growing and broadening awareness of this stuff. That's great...right up until it becomes a cudgel to use to silence people and shut down perfectly harmless things like fun fan art. A world of compassion and acceptance isn't built on outrage, judgment, and threats of violence. Quite the contrary. It's built on kindness. ... "
" ... The NYU report makes a series of recommendations for social media companies and the Biden administration to address the suspicions of anti-right bias, including giving more explanation for content moderation actions, letting users choose between different algorithms and creating a new Digital Regulatory Agency dedicated to social media oversight. The researchers also predict conservatives are unlikely to actually leave major sites like Twitter and Facebook because of their perceived biases. Conservatives like the wide platform those sites offer, researchers said, and “appear to relish wielding the bias-claim cudgel, even though it’s based on distortions and falsehoods.” ... "
" ... Throughout human history, prevailing consensus has been wielded as a cudgel to marginalize, define, other, and contain. “When we gender a body, we are making assumptions about the body’s function, its sociopolitical condition, its fixity,” Russell writes. “When the body is determined as a male or female individual, the body performs gender as its score, guided by a set of rules and requirements that validate and verify the humanity of that individual. A body that pushes back at the application of pronouns, or remains indecipherable within binary assignment, is a body that refuses to perform the score. This nonperformance is a glitch. The glitch is a form of refusal.” ... "
" ... Without a driver’s license, many Americans can’t get to work. It should come as no surprise then that license suspension all too often traps drivers in a vicious cycle of debt. Unable to pay off the original fine, drivers incur additional penalties and fees for failing to pay, which only drives them deeper into debt. “When states wield license suspension as a cudgel, they primarily hit the poor,” the joint brief declared. ... "