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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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Like everything there’s a line. I think it’s great that people, typically people of power and privilege, are increasingly being called out publicly for truly bad behaviour. The origin of #MeToo was a long overdue reclamation of power by untold numbers of people who had been taken advantage of. Clearly it had a positive effect with people like Cosby going to jail for criminal acts. I also have no issue with people being called out for really shippy non-criminal behaviour if it helps other people avoid being victimized by them.
The line gets crossed when the definition of really shippy behaviour gets greyer and even just accusations of not great behaviour result in individuals automatically becoming pariahs in all circles.
I believe that ‘cancel culture’ (I hate that term) has significantly increased in the last five years, much of it is welcome and justified, and much of it is over the top and hurtful.