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I don't like the Dune prequels, Monetarism or Atlas Shrugged. None of them is hate speech.

Putting aside the fact the worst examples of "Cancel Culture" are an amplified, tiny number of edge cases, given fuel by those who wish to attack fairly reasonable requests to marginalise hate speech. Ishiguro makes a good point a skilled writer can write from the perspective of someone very different from them. Not that many people are actually arguing against that. What was of concern is the perspectives of marginalised people being written in a cliched and harmful way by people who have no understanding of their lives. Or because they have an agenda of portraying those people in a negative way. Understanding built on accurate and intelligent writing is great but I'm not going to read stuff that has an agenda to caricature and attack.

Interesting that the language of choice is Delphi. Presumably because it is a teaching language and easy to pickup quickly.

I thought it was a case of referenda being used to demand things be done but the voters not actually wanting to have to pay for them.

Perhaps this is a good argument to split activities between email addresses. I guess many of us already have several perhaps personal, public, work, online account and so on. When you think of an email address as a reputation then its time to have a dozen or so on the go so that those reputations do not overlap.

But if I learn babel17 won't I become a traitor!