This judgmental tone is part of a long history of self-help-based cultural thought policing.
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Subscribers now become the willing participants in Spotify's ridiculous thought policing, whether they agree with it or not.
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Roiphe surely knows this because she's part of it — fear of "thought policing" aside, she published her piece anyway.
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In Germany, there still is a strong belief that you can change dissenters' minds by erecting national cultural guidelines — in other words, thought-policing.
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That, in turn, fed complaints among some conservatives that Silicon Valley, under pressure from liberals and the news media, was guilty of thought-policing.
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His expressions while the underling fails to comprehend the question offer a more succinct representation of thought policing than many bigger and better movies have achieved.
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Their thought-policing only helps enfeeble and intellectually impoverish Muslims: When Muslim minds aren't challenged by "dangerous" ideas they cannot develop the sophistication needed to articulate their own.
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It's harder still to set the boundary of this centralized thought-policing: Was it "organized nastiness" when hundreds of Sanders supporters replied to Warren's tweets with snake emojis?
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Conservatives especially denounced Damore's firing as political correctness and thought policing, prompting others to defend it as a response to discriminatory action against women and marginalized people in technology.
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Tillman: And I see these parallels now in this thought-policing thing, where when I was a kid a sexual thought equaled a sexual act equaled a sexual sin.
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The result is a jumble of dogpiling and dragging, subtweeting and screenshotting, vote-brigading and flagging wars, with accusations of white supremacy on one side and charges of thought-policing moral authoritarianism on the other.
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" Roiphe references the harassment she experienced in the run-up to her essay's publication, and asks, "With this level of thought policing, who in their right mind would try to say anything even mildly provocative or original?
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And they point to the way they are shunned on campus — both Ms. Coulter and Mr. Yiannopoulos had to cancel their planned speeches, and nine people were arrested outside the hall where Mr. Shapiro spoke last month — as examples of left-wing thought-policing.
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In the end, four more years passed before the bulk of the Republican Party looked up and turned on Senator McCarthy — four years of public show trials and thought policing that pushed the country so hard to the right that the effects lasted decades.
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Organized by Mr. Katz and Andrew Barron, a doctoral student at the University at Buffalo, this show brings the think-piece aspect of "Art AIDS America" forward, emphasizing the notion that gay artists of the early AIDS era, caught between government censorship and a thought-policing art academy, felt compelled to disguise references to the disease.
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But all the efforts at thought-policing and relentlessly bullying of anyone not right on top of the Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffTrump rails against House Democrats, impeachment inquiry during campaign rally: 'It's all a hoax' Graham: Schiff comment on inquiry findings 'full of crap' Democrats set stage for Watergate-style TV hearings MORE/MSNBC talking points just generally sucks, and is completely counterproductive.
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Janice Turner of The Times praised the author in her review of Woke for "perfectly captur[ing] the chiding, self-righteous, intolerant, joyless tone of the 'woke'", and added that though "the politics can be heavy-handed, [...], its satire is a direct hit on the awful state of the left, in all its nihilism, narcissism and illogic, and its self-defeating, petty-minded thought policing. Woke is no joke." Patricia Casey of the Irish Independent hailed McGrath's tweets as "outrageous and hilarious", leaving her "addicted, hooked, devoted". The New Criterion praised Doyle's satirical humour, writing that "blessed with a pitch perfect ear for absurdity, [he] has revealed the malign hilarity of woke culture".
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