{"id":775,"date":"2024-05-12T16:47:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T16:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/12\/good-and-bad-self-censorship\/"},"modified":"2024-05-12T16:47:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T16:47:04","slug":"good-and-bad-self-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/12\/good-and-bad-self-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad and Good Self-Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">&#39;Censorship&#39; and &#39;self-censorship&#39; are not dirty words.&#0160; There are good and bad forms of each.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\">Bad self-censorship<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The spreading virus of wokeness has transformed not only publishing but the entire information economy. At every level of it from school lectures to movies to Substack blogs, participants are vulnerable to having their careers ruined by a woke criticism. Everyone I know in publishing is aware of this danger and must reckon on the consequences. As a result, we now have self-censorship. It is far worse than the McCarthyism of the 1950\u2019s because its enforcers among the woke have the ability to create instant twitters storms for which there are few effective defenses. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2023\/03\/assume-nothing-edward-jay-epstein-speaks.php\">Edward Jay Epstein<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">&#0160;<em>Good self-censorship<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Self-censorship and self-regulation of words, thoughts, desires, and emotions are essential to the moral life.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#39;Censorship&#39; and &#39;self-censorship&#39; are not dirty words.&#0160; There are good and bad forms of each. Bad self-censorship The spreading virus of wokeness has transformed not only publishing but the entire information economy. At every level of it from school lectures to movies to Substack blogs, participants are vulnerable to having their careers ruined by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/12\/good-and-bad-self-censorship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bad and Good Self-Censorship&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}