There are several issues that I want people to stop lying about:

Toxic Masculinity, privilege in all its forms, female victimhood and pretty much anything else modern feminists talk about. I haven’t come across a single topic that a feminist brings up that they then haven’t miscategorized(? spell check keeps giving me a flag) in some way. They can point out a problem well but the solutions usually just make it worse or are juvenile foot stomping.

The US being a white supremacist nation full of sexist, racist and misogynistic white men you oppress every other ethnic group. The situation is a lot more complicated than that because there is racism and sexism going on but it not just a white people problem. Even if it’s mostly white people doing that right now, looking only to white people as the source of that kind of behavior doesn’t solve the underlying issue.

Hate speech is Free Speech. I don’t care what someone says. I do care about the effect that speech has on people and the tendency of rhetoric to lead to action. It’s a delicate balancing act to protect all speech while still holding people to account for the actions that spring from that speech. Incitement to violence is only bad when it leads to actual violence. Anything that leads up to the action, actually hurting someone or damaging something, should be handled socially and not legally.

No form of digital entertain leads, in and of itself, to real world harm. I don’t care what it is as long as it stays in the realm of a personally held fantasy. I also don’t care if people with similar interests gather together and again the subject is irrelevant to me. Thoughts and peaceful actions shouldn’t be criminalized, although socially it some thoughts will never be tolerated if they are expressed. I just don’t want laws to be passed that limit people’s ability to freely associate with whoever they want.

Utopian ideals need to stay in people’s fantasies because in the real world they just lead to death and disappointment. Personally I may feel like something is perfect but as soon as I involve other people, I need to make it perfect for them as well to make it fair. Where they compromise, I also need to be willing to compromise. This, as far as I have seen, will lead to a system that is fair, optimally efficient and flexible but not perfect.

Chipping Away at False Narratives