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1. swatco+MR[view] [source] 2023-02-19 00:28:30
>>GavCo+(OP)
Those of us who grew up near various religious communities in the second half of the twentieth century are familiar with the edited and abridged versions of media made to be more palatable to the morals of whichever community, as well as the scandals over media which were an affront to them for whatever reason.

Obviously, a publisher committed to those communities and who can get the rights to do so will make a “clean” versions for them. For better or worse, it happens all the time.

The only news here is in whose morals are behind expressed in the edits, because we had gotten used to it just being a religion thing and forgot that secular morals can run just as puritanical.

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2. oska+mY[view] [source] 2023-02-19 01:29:02
>>swatco+MR
> and forgot that secular morals can run just as puritanical

I'd suggest that it is a new religion being satisfied here, that of 'wokeism'.

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3. throw_+Qa1[view] [source] 2023-02-19 03:13:25
>>oska+mY
> I'd suggest that it is a new religion being satisfied here, that of 'wokeism'.

It certainly is a cult since it works exactly like one, it has rules, a unquestionable creed ("diversity and inclusion"), struggle sessions where members have to admit their "crimes" in public like "their privileges", a hierarchy between its members (the pyramid of oppression), a caste that is above any criticism whatsoever, blasphemy, lists of forbidden words, and shunning of its members when they do something deemed "insensitive".

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