Reply To: [TW: rape] Helping Sea Monkeys with triggers (at karaoke and otherwise), was: JCCC4 Post-Mortem
Just speaking for myself, not for anyone else, there’s a reason I personally set the bar fairly high, because I really do still feel an instinct to protect artistic expression. My bar is not “this is offensive” (I find songs that mock other people’s religious faith offensive, but they don’t hurt me and I wouldn’t request they be banned.) Not “this makes me very sad.” (Otherwise nobody would ever hear “Space Doggity” again–but still it doesn’t cause me personal suffering.) My bar is to look someone, really or virtually, in the eye and say “This specific song is deeply personally hurtful to me, please do not include it” and leaves little room for games. It is either the truth, or it is a lie. And anything that rises to *that* level just is not a controversy for me to leave it off the table in this one small few-hours-per-year specific context. And I sincerely do not believe this would result in hundreds of arbitrarily banned songs. Maybe that means I am naive and I have more faith in the community than it deserves, but that is truly what I believe.