tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post113390177857765716..comments2024-02-20T14:00:41.771-05:00Comments on A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: One Piece of Everyday OppressionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-1134077857895226662005-12-08T16:37:00.000-05:002005-12-08T16:37:00.000-05:00Well, yes and no...it's always too easy to find re...Well, yes and no...it's always too easy to find reasons not to engage with issues of oppressive speech (our own or another's). But I think that there are ways in which a relatively warm, safe, non-hierarchical peer group can be a pretty good space for engaging with such statements. I find it so, anyway, at least sometimes. Partly that's because in that kind of group I'm more likely to just be Scott Neighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415106335668233754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-1134002148997727032005-12-07T19:35:00.000-05:002005-12-07T19:35:00.000-05:00If you're among friends (or at least people you as...If you're among friends (or at least people you associate with a lot), it's emotionally more difficult to take a critical stance, and they'll probably wonder why you bothered if you do since you're "just all friends" and that kind of talk is "just talk".<BR/><BR/>It's a wrench.<BR/><BR/>ToddAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-1133977996571759042005-12-07T12:53:00.000-05:002005-12-07T12:53:00.000-05:00An example? Well, the ones I remember most clearly...An example? Well, the ones I remember most clearly are also the most recent, and as you can probably tell from the very abstracted approach I took to writing the post, I'm doing my best to avoid including any detail that might identify the contexts that I'm talking about to any other participants in those contexts that might happen to stumble across this blog.<BR/><BR/>That said, I think one Scott Neighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415106335668233754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-1133934960132895262005-12-07T00:56:00.000-05:002005-12-07T00:56:00.000-05:00do you have an example of such a statement?do you have an example of such a statement?rabfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16784748066010530771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7042961.post-1133917211303663382005-12-06T20:00:00.000-05:002005-12-06T20:00:00.000-05:00Good points.I've had the same sort of thing happen...Good points.<BR/><BR/>I've had the same sort of thing happen to me every so often (mild homophobia usually presented as an ironic critique of The Village People) in one of my RPGing groups.<BR/><BR/>Since they're playing super-heroes, I've been thinking of having a flamingly gay super hero save their collective ass (no pun intended) some time.<BR/><BR/>ToddAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com