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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Maybe take a minute and read the Harper’s Letter expressing alarm about the climate of growing censoriousness and intolerance we’re witnessing. Its signatories include such notorious alt-right ######bags as Margaret Atwood, Noam Chomsky, Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Ignatieff, Garry Kasparov, Salman Rushdie, and Gloria Steinem.
https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-just...d-open-debate/
The notion that we can shame, censor, cancel, and fire our way to a more just society is delusion of the highest order. As the letter states: |
The false equivalency employed in ‘cancel culture’ is one of the biggest problems.
This is also completely separate from Virtanen’s situation at this point.
Equating everyone who owns the mistakes they made in the past with Harvey Weinstein leaves no room for redemption, learning from the mistake, and becoming a better human.
The same clowns who rail against “cancel culture” and “wokism” can’t figure out they are the antidote for each other if you actually explore the reason each one exists and use that reason effectively.
One wants to acknowledge wrong doing and the other wants people to understand and personally appreciate the wrong doing.
Obviously this depends on the severity of wrong doing. You can’t paint everyone with the same brush or you leave no space for those who want to learn from their mistakes. For those that don’t want to learn from their past or wrong doing... they reap what they sow.