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@halo4rules replied to your post “Majority in Brazil’s top court to make homophobia and transphobia...”

@unseen-arts

blocking someone online cause u dont like what they say is one thing. LOCKING SOMEONE UP CAUEE U DONT LIKE WHAT THEY SAID IS EXACTLY WHAT THE NAZIS/SOVIET RUSSIA DID. Or they just killed u in the street. So yes I'm worried for the state of the world when free speech is under attack. U CANT STOP PEOPLE FROM SAYING OR THINKING. If u dont agree with what they are saying like I do then just dont listen. Otherwise it giving them the attention they want.

@halo4rules replied to your post “Majority in Brazil’s top court to make homophobia and transphobia...”

@[REDACTED BY REQUEST] 1)neither of those words are a real thing, a it nobody afraid of someone cause they gay or just an confused idiot 2)I anit some leftist, snowflake, SJW sissy that gets angry when I dont get my way. Learn to see things from a view other than your own like I have. And go UNFUCK YOURSELF. And if u looked at my blog then u should have read the header dumbass.

@infinitegrowthlover replied to your post “Majority in Brazil’s top court to make homophobia and transphobia...”

@unseen-arts "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." In other words, if people are easily offended by words and we jail them for it, that's oppression. It's complete asinine to say otherwise. I'm upset when someone tells me that America is evil, but I don't let it bother me. Because WORDS ARE NOTHING BUT SOUND. Words CAN'T hurt you.

Hey, fellas! 

Look, I get your concern. I truly do. But while I do believe it’s genuine, I do not think you have anything to fear from the criminalization of LGBT+phobia in Brazil. It isn’t just “words”. LGBT+s are systematically discriminated in the workplace, in adoption services, in healthcare, in house purchase, in schools, etc. We’re not talking about a random internet troll saying “lmao fags”. We’re talking about people being denied services, rights, and even lives for being who they are. LGBT+phobia is grave and deadly, a common motivator for hate crimes here, we’re quite a deadly country for these people. And I disagree when you say “words can’t hurt”. Countless psychology studies show that effects of emotional, verbal, psychological abuse are as real as of physical abuse - so when it’s abuse, it should be tackled as such. And we already have laws that fight discrimination - sexism, racism, xenophobia, and religious discrimination have been illegal in this country for decades. We have not descended into a dystopian systematic censorship because of that, and we won’t now (at least not because of that either). Same thing with Germany, for example, where nazism has been crime for, like, ever. 

Freedom of speech is a pillar of our society, sure. But, since we live in a society, our freedoms end where the rights of others begin, and that also applies to freedom of speech. No one’s talking about the government chasing down dissenters and critics in order to silence and censor them. First of all, judicial responsibilization comes after what was said be said, what was done be done. Second of all, it isn’t the government itself suing people, it’s civilians who are going to sue someone for discrimination. And third, it’s not the federal government who’s going to judge and carry out sentences, it’s the civilian’s own respective local courts, with the accused person keeping their right to defense, etc. So I don’t really think this is comparable to what was done in these horrible regimes you mentioned.

This decision by our Supreme Court was way more of a final dot in the discussion of “if LGBT+ discrimination should fit our discrimination laws” and it serves to guide future sentences by other judges. No one’s giving the government any censoring power. We could talk if sentences to punctual verbal aggressions should be civil and not penal, so people don’t go to jail because of words. That’s a valid discussion to have too. But, when it comes to free speech, I do not believe we have to fear for it because of LGBT+phobia criminalization, and I hope I could show you why. And, if I could add a slightly unrelated note, if we have to fear for free speech in this current government, it’s probably going to be more for censoring LGBT+ content than for fighting LGBT+ discrimination (Russia being an extreme example of what I mean).

Cheers!

-Mod Nise da Silveira

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noveltwin

I understand that you have a very strong belief about the Education System, but in a society ruled by Monarchs, Twilight technically has the power to do whatever she wants due to her position, combine that with the support of both the rest of the Royalty and the general approval from her subjects, a "Friendship School" that doesn't follow the established system can't really be opposed.

You say this, but has anyone with royal authority ever done this in the history of the show? 

Like, don’t get me wrong, your point is absolutely valid and on any normal Tuesday I would agree with you 100%, but I don’t think this is actually how Equestria works. Its been 8, going on 9, seasons, and not a single royal figure has exercised their royal authority outside of calling for a militant response to a threat.

And that ‘militant response’ was always “Hey Twilight, could you take care of my thousand year old garbage for me? Kay thanks cool, I’m gonna go over here and have a margarita.”

If Twilight truly does have royal authority to do whatever she wants, cool beans! It just seems like that’s what they would have done in the episode rather than Twilight just running an unaccredited School and that being okay. (It also doesn’t make for terribly exciting story telling, but at least it’d be established)

infinitegrowthlover

I’d like to say that the episode more or less represents most of the public school systems. Where they expect you to do exactly what they say. Don’t try to make for an interesting time, don’t be creative with your teachings, just do it like this and only this by paper.

I liked the episode primarily cause it reminds me of the problems in our school system, where everything is too strict and are extremely counter-productive to the children’s capabilities of learning. I’d like to think of this as an encouragement to get public schools to break off the monopoly as an education system and create their own schools and rules.

Yes, this is true of public schools, you nailed the head there. Public schools are meant to be uniform so everyone comes out of school with a skill set that prepares them either for college or the work force, and that’s why its so cookie cutter and not for everyone, and why there are so many issues with it.

But the problem is that Private Schools, Charter Schools, Preparatory Schools, etc, don’t have to follow the standards of Public Schools. That’s the entire point of why they exist.

Sure, their students still need to be able to pass standardized exams in the real world, but their methodology of teaching can vary greatly from public schools. And the THINGS they can teach vary greatly too! This is why religious schools tend to be private schools (some exceptions my apply).

Either way, it feels like the episode had such an easy and obvious solution dangling in front of it to make Twilight’s school fit accreditation AND her unique method of teaching, and they decided to go the long way around it to have some weird moral that doesn’t make sense to me.

That or they could’ve just made it a tech school where the whole point is to learn a trade, like Friendship. Those don’t need accreditation but still give qualifications to work in certain fields.

Or hell, it could’ve been an extended Friendship Seminar that taught you all the values of Friendship you needed and then graduated you.

My entire point is there are so many ways they could’ve told a better and more interesting story with Twilight’s school and they chose one of the most confusing and arbitrary paths they could’ve for it.

And that last line honestly feels like Season 8 in a nutshell so far.