Re: why some people hate cops

Posted by Stephen Guerin-5 on Sep 24, 2020; 6:15pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/why-some-people-hate-cops-tp7598819p7598825.html

Marcus writes:

   I guess the only thing I hate more than cops are religious people. 

As a list admin, this might be flaggable.  I'm not sure if expressing hatred of a protected class of people in of itself is hate speech- it seems to be at least up to the line. Ie, replace with "The two groups I hate more than cops are gays and black people" - would I have a responsibility to intercede?

As I consider the impotence of this group to take political action and incite political violence I consider the statement low to zero risk. I will take no action as a list admin. Intellectually, I would like to know where the line of hate speech is.

Now, as a fellow list member and religious person, I find your hate an opportunity for discussion and exploration.  I would estimate your emotion is held by at least a rough majority of list members.

The Science / Religion schism, I think it is one of the great divides in our political situation and may signify a phase transition in our culture as we stretch for new metaphors in scientific and spiritual understanding. The 2000-year old metaphors are certainly getting long in the tooth. Similarly, many on this list feel the 60-year-old scientific metaphors around fundamental questions of intelligence and living systems are in the process of updating and exploration. I suspect there will be opportunities for synthesis.

 Perhaps Merle would like to facilitate a virtualFriam on the topic.  

-Stephen

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