Stephen Snyder

Sunday Morning! “The Memory Police” by Yoko Ogawa

Rufus F. August 25, 2019

On a Japanese novel and film that deal in different ways with the social pressure to forget....

Jaybird in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I'm not talking about whether the alleged death was justified. Who can say? People are innocent unti…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Austin_Metcalf I've been following that one and I don't thi…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025In "Where are the Free Speech Abolutists?" discourse, apparently Karmelo Anthony is having a press c…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I wonder if Trump has gotten involved and is giving "ignore due process and make this happen" orders…
Jaybird in reply to pillsy on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Well, do everything you can in the meantime to explain how "freedom of speech doesn't mean *THAT*" t…
pillsy in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I never for a second believed that my question would be anything but rhetorical when the day came
Jaybird in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The first happened during my childhood (note, I'm in my early 50s). Why do you ask?
CJColucci in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025If you don't want to answer the question asked* rather than the one you put (and didn't answer), tha…
Jaybird in reply to pillsy on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025It exists to prevent the day when you will be crying out "where are the people who believe in free s…
pillsy in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Well yes, that norm of "free speech" doesn't exist to protect the Right from the consequences of say…

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Stephen Snyder

Sunday Morning! “The Memory Police” by Yoko Ogawa

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