#(power)

[glittermoonie]

"HALT! WHERE IS GABRIEL, AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM?!"

[arrimorr]

I'm gonna be silly about new ultrakill for a bit

[catpocalyptic]

Ashamed to say i spent all day on this

[hanavbara]

the afterparty 😈💥 #chainsawman #チェンソーマ

[shiroisiam19]

Gabriel and Gabrielings

[somedeimi1]

Jealous

[closet-keys]

"Neutrality" is a tool of censorship

All forms of knowledge creation and meaning-making are shaped and crafted by power relations and the justification for those relations. A common way to shape knowledge and meaning is to reframe the denial of atrocity by those in power as a "debate." This tactic creates a rhetorical "Schrödinger's cat" in which the atrocity is simultaneously happening and not happening, according to who you ask. It turns the material reality of the situation into a hypothetical thought experiment that the audience is invited to debate forever, with any conclusion being cast as "biased."

For a well-known example, oil lobbyists tried to suppress the scientific consensus on climate change for decades, and a significant amount of media aided in this by shaping all reporting on climate crisis into a "controversy." Reporting construed economically motivated denial as another "point of view," and positioned their own journalism as being "neutral" and "objective" in presenting "both sides."

This "neutrality" constitutes a social reality in which, to be regarded as "neutral" one must never speak plainly about the facts of the atrocity. It is censorship through more subtle and manipulative means. It is a tool of power.