So what is a “local community” exactly? University students? They tend to be pretty much anything-goes in terms of weird ideologies and discussion topics. Workplace communities? Mostly have a tacit agreement not to discuss religion or politics ever. People living near each other? Discussions beyond “nice weather we’re having” are pretty rare.
So what is a “local community” exactly? University students? They tend to be pretty much anything-goes in terms of weird ideologies and discussion topics. Workplace communities? Mostly have a tacit agreement not to discuss religion or politics ever. People living near each other? Discussions beyond “nice weather we’re having” are pretty rare.
I was also confused by this. I don’t know what a “local community” would be, or why I would talk to one.
As far as I can tell, in any reasonably large grouping of people, for all speech acts X, there is some person who will react violently to X.