#Deception
#Coercion
#Silencing

Respect to all those standing up, speaking up and putting themselves in the firing line.

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A quotation from Shaw, George Bernard:

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/62073/

#quote #quotes #quotation #assassination #censorship #killing #murder #silencing

@arghavan_salles @peterhotez And I must say it sickens me to see people responding to this: ”Who is being silenced?”

Yeah. In what kind of a world does one have to live, to not think that angry people showing up on your door demanding things does not make you think twice about what to say?

Really?

#silencing #harrassment #scientists #twitter #problem

Family & supporters of #HumanRights #activist Dong Guangping have been able to confirm that he has been held in a #Chinese #DetentionCentre since October of last year, according to a press release.

Dong, 64, is an activist known for standing against Chinese #censorship & had condemned #China for #silencing info on #TiananmenSquare #massacre in 1989.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/human-rights-activist-confirmed-to-be-held-in-chinese-detention-centre-family-in-canada-1.6419608

#AsianMastodon #SocialJustice #ChineseCensorship #PoliticalPrisoner #ChineseCanadaConnection

@galacticstone

Yeah I wish I could remember all of the details

Went back four or five days through my Bookmarks and didn't see that I'd participated in any convos, rather than just read

Sorry...

And a final point I've just added in:

a lot of this #Silencing (or whatever) was short-term anyway

All of it (that I saw) was a short-term patch that was removed when possible

If you really think that using the word "#narcissism" is #ableist, please watch this video:

https://youtu.be/eISuc8v7B1M

To summarize (poorly), the #research is beginning to recognize that the #personality #disorders, as diagnoses, do those to whom they are applied more harm than good. Most #narcissists will never see a #therapist, and they'll never be #diagnosed with #NPD. The people who are diagnosed with NPD are #vulnerable, and it's possible they need a second opinion.

But the #ableism? It's calling from inside the house.

Because if you're still convinced that saying "#narcissistic" is ableist, then rather than shouting "ableist" at the top of your lungs to people who are #survivors (and in some cases present #victims) of people who engage in narcissistic #behaviors, are the most likely to take your words seriously. They are the most likely to experience worse #abuse as a result of your disempowering them and silencing them.

Instead of #silencing survivors, try to consider what words may be used instead of narcissism. It's not correct to say that "narcissistic abuse" is the same as #emotional abuse. Narcissistic abuse may be a form of emotional abuse, but its insidiousness goes far beyond what most people who experience emotional abuse ever experience.

A lot of people who think of "narcissism" as an ableist term will eagerly call its users ableist without offering any alternative words that will allow them to speak about their specific type of suffering. So let Dr. #Ramani do the work for you: Consider sharing the term "#antagonistic #relationship #style" or, in lieu of "narcissistic abuse," antagonistic #relational abuse, with those who you might otherwise re-#traumatize with your careless #social #justice #barbarism.

Because silencing the survivors of abuse, many of whom have #PTSD from living with narcissistic (or antagonistic) persons, is the real ableism.

#psychology #socialJustice #mentalHealth #stigma

@JoshuaHolland "The reaction in the newsroom has been a mix of sadness for losing a colleague and fear that something similar could happen to them, according to a person familiar with internal meetings who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal exchanges." #DeSantis #FreedomofthePress ##facts v #lies #democracy not #facism #education not #bias and #discrimination #CivilLiberties #FreeSpeech #silencing the #press

Bereits vor #ElonMusk war #Twitter nicht mehr die Plattform der Selbstermaechtigung und des Gehört-Werdens.

Waren bis in die Gegenwart rechte #HateSpeech möglich, so hat sich zumindest in #Deutschland das #NetzDG auf #Twitter als Overblocking für linke Kritik im Bereich der "Sozialpolitik" ausgewirkt.

Ein #Silencing der Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit von oekonomisch exkludierten Menschen ist politisch sehr fragwürdig!

Seit 2019 ist auf #Twitter diese Tendenz zur Blockade Realität

RT @Mica4711
Wir müssen alle entschlossener gegen diesen kleinen, aber hyperaktiven Haufen staatszersetzender Rechtsextremisten, demokratiefeindlicher Putin-Propagandisten und denkbefreiter Querulanten vorgehen! Ihr einziges Ziel: Diskursive Dominanz.

#silencing #nosilencing https://twitter.com/HateAid/status/1582291677741457408

The red states are trying to win
With unfair laws they want to shove in
But we should protest
For our rights to rest
And defend democracy we are within

#nashville #redstates #silencing #protest #democracy #limerick #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/opinion/nashville-city-council-tennessee-republicans.html

Sollte man sich angesehen haben!

"Ein Dorf verstummt - Völkische Nachbarn im Harz":

https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen-anhalt/magdeburg/harz/wienrode-gasthof-siedler-elysia-100.html

#Völkisch #VölkischerNationalismus #Silencing #Politik #Kommunalpolitik #Bedrohung #Anastasiabewegung

Sie sehen freigeschaltet aus, doch #Twitter sperrt weiter Journalist:innen aus.
P.S. Es gibt unterschiedliche Formen des #Silencing. Tweets wurden schon vor der Übernahme durch #Musk durch Algorithmen gefiltert. Meinungsfreiheit auf Twitter ist langem eine Illusion.
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-twitter-banned-journalists/

Misuse of Meditation
An unwise use of meditation could harm you. If you meditate only to eliminate symptoms of problems in your life without eliminating the cause, the cause will continue to create more problems in your life. It is like silencing a sounding fire alarm and letting the fire continue to burn.

#misuse #meditation #symptom #cause #LifeProblem #silencing #FireAlarm #mindfulness #SelfAwareness #humanity #ndfh

Zwischen dem #turds & "Terf"-Geschrei der pseudolinken Blase, nun angeführt von Jan Böhmermann und dem "Ihr müsst mal ordentlich durchgefickt werden. Dann wisst ihr auch wieder wo eurer Platz ist" einer braunen Durchschnittskartoffel ist kaum ein Unterschied.
#Silencing

@mattwynne
A respected #neighbourhood is "upgrading our silence on mastodon.social and mastodon.online to #defederation" today. This followed their standard delay after announcement.
The turn of infosec.exchange is due on Tuesday.
The same instance put #Hachydermio reception in #silencing mode yesterday Friday.
What it does: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/moderation/#limit-user

I am adding our "Benevolent Dictator For Life" @nova: I am happy that you are back Kris 💜

Unable to follow @gretathunberg and a number of other activists on various #instances with my @EubieDrew acct, but I can follow them all on my alt acct @UB

#QOTO #federation #moderation #groupthink #silencing

Unable to follow @gretathunberg and a number of other activists on various #instances with my @EubieDrew acct, but I can follow them all on my alt acct @UB

#QOTO #federation #moderation #groupthink #silencing

Love this story: the crazy RNA pUG tails Scott Kennedy previously showed target RNAs for heritable silencing in worms turn out to make a crazy beautiful structure that recruits RdRP:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-022-00854-z

#RNAi #epigenetics #RNA #pUG #silencing #StructuralBiology

Love this story: the crazy RNA pUG tails Scott Kennedy previously showed target RNAs for heritable silencing in worms turn out to make a crazy beautiful structure that recruits RdRP:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-022-00854-z

#RNAi #epigenetics #RNA #pUG #silencing #StructuralBiology