I am setting up this blog to address a number of technical and legal issues that, over the long run, can affect the freedom of media newbies like me to speak freely on the Internet and other low-cost media that have developed in the past ten years.
Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
My legal name is "John William Boushka" or "John W. Boushka"; my parents gave me the nickname of "Bill" based on my middle name, and this is how I am generally greeted. This is also the name for my book authorship. On the Web, you can find me as both "Bill Boushka" and "John W. Boushka"; this has been the case since the late 1990s. Sometimes I can be located as "John Boushka" without the "W." That's the identity my parents dealt me in 1943!
YouTube, Facebook "hate speech" rules could conceivably shut down discussions of low birth rates among wealthier people, and we need that conversation
Is talking about population demographics now
presenting an “unacceptable ideology” (as YouTube would define it)?
In recent months, a lot of us have gotten informed
about the existence of the objectionable racial idea or conspiracy theory, “great replacement”, originating from France and re-emphasizezd by Renaud Camus’s 2012
book.Sometimes the theory also leads to
anti-Semitism. The hate-speech rules would bar presenting any ideology that admits one group to claim superiority over another, even as an abstract notion well-known from centuries of world history. Until Charlottesville and then New Zealand, I had barely thought about the concept as such at all. It has no chance of coming about through any reasonable political process.
However, for perhaps the past two decades we have
heard repeated warnings that lower birth rates among wealthier people (who in Europe
and the Americas are more likely to be Caucasian). The caution about having
children leads to fewer workers to support existing retirees and increases the
strain on Social Security and retirement systems.
The caution is largely motivated by financial caution
and development, but also by individualism, feminism, and gay rights. People
who feel less “tribal” attachment tend to have fewer children.
In fact, the concern over lower birth rates has contributed
to homophobia.That’s obviously the case
in Russia today (with the 2013 law).But
it also explained a lot of hostility toward homosexuals before Stonewall (and
the tendency to conflate the problem with the Cold War and communism).
In my own situation, since I was an only child, my
announcement of “latent homosexuality” at William and Mary in 1961 was seen as
a death penalty to the idea that my parents’ marriage would lead to a lineage.
People who live in relatively closed communities or “tribes”
tend to have more children, but the men (husbands) especially feel more
committed to lifelong marital intimacy if they believe that others around them have
to follow the same moral rules of religious purity. These rules tended to
demand a level of gender-conforming performance and communal risk-sharing among
all persons in the group, the sort of thing that leads to drafting only men.
That’s a tough reality to follow.Gay activists over the years have taken the intellectually
lazy but culturally safe path of treating gender or sexually non conforming
persons as members of separate (protected) classes rather than look at what happens
at a psychological level.
And now looking at was really happening a half-century
ago is almost forbidden by big Tech policy, out of fear of instigating violence
and fascism all over again. The radical Left wants supposedly settled questions
taken out of the purvey of free speech, which it seems a re-igniting the risk
to its vulnerable protected classes. But, surprise, male-only Selective Service
registration is not settled.
The Washington Post has a distantly tangential article by Hugh Ryan, "How Eugenics Gave Rise to Modern Homophobia", link. There is an odd twist in how the "born this way" meme works.
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