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Originally Posted by 81MC
We also used to burn witches and hold public lynchings. I am assuming EE was referring to the direction of modern, civilized society and not the entire history of mankind.
The fact that we do something wrong sometimes doesn’t mean we should accept that it’ll naturally pervert everything else. Also, we want to go down the route of criminalizing the entirety of a protest? If I donated to BLM, am I complicit in the crimes that caused millions in damage stateside? Or should I have lost my job for publicly supporting those at Fairy Creek? Or if CPAWS illegally blocked access to coal projects, you’d have their donors list be publicized for action?
Let’s save our outrage for those who actually commit crimes. Even then, that seems to be reserved for heinous crimes and particularly severe outcomes. Crimes happen all the time, no one here could possibly name 99% of the offenders.
I find it inhumane that we have so many businesses where a criminal record is automatically a rejection. It wracks my brain to consider actually extending that level of indecency simply for supporting political causes. Are we so hungry for moral righteousness that we should be so punitive in our judgments as to actuslly destroy the livelihoods of our compatriots because they donated to a cause they at one time or another belived in? That’s despicable any way you chose.
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I actually agree with most of this personally and I think you and I are on the same page more often than we’re not, I just find this position to be out of step with where society is at or has been at recently and I don’t see much resistance to those things from most people who complain about cancel culture.
People have no problem complaining about cancel culture when they empathise with the person and a lot of difficultly not engaging it when they don’t. How many people like EE were eager to try and shame Trudeau for blackface, right? Plenty. How often do people stand up and say we should do away with sex offender registries, which serve to shame people even after they have served their time for their crime? People pick and choose what’s tasteful to them.