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Publicly calling for mass, summary executions is unacceptable. https://twitter.com/josh_emerson/status/1348266192583192584
And also, there’s a serious problem with the unaccountable power that Silicon Valley technology CEOs have over our lives and public communication. https://twitter.com/douglaskmurray/status/1348172961275129864
There are legitimate worries about where a (now) politically expedient set of actions, regarding a longstanding problem, is going to end. And there are many reasons to think that the people charged with making decisions about this are going to overreach, as they have done before. https://twitter.com/benjaminaboyce/status/1348175404683563010
People across the political spectrum are trying to find our way in a changed landscape. https://twitter.com/schwarzenegger/status/1348249481284874240
A lot of us have questions that aren’t even being honestly addressed by the people we would have once trusted. If you can’t talk about what the true problem is, how can you solve it? https://twitter.com/aniobrien/status/1348322008191225857
If all your decisions are clearly being made based on whether or not you agree with someone, or like them, or if you only express opinions about someone that you can benefit from, how can those decisions be trusted to be just and fair? https://twitter.com/the_samedrugs/status/1348101304699129856
The US political left is full of ‘brave’ people who read the opposition “so you don’t have to,” and ‘good’ people who define goodness based on the opinions that someone is willing to read. https://twitter.com/ritapanahi/status/1348252640971427840
And there is not a lot of reading going on, on the US left-of-center anymore. The SJWs, the woke, the Too Online, whatever anyone is calling them these days, bearing in mind that the woke include all the lead editors of our national flagship media outlets. https://twitter.com/seerutkchawla/status/1348127731091984386
There are people issuing calls for us to apologize for the violence in DC last week—based on our associations with conservatives—who haven’t even read enough about the people they’re criticizing to know that we, and all the groups we’ve worked with, condemned it that day. https://twitter.com/womenslibfront/status/1347184524032147456
There are people who’ve spent the whole year denouncing political violence in the US, and have continued to do so, even when it might have been tempting to do otherwise. If the country is to continue to be a nation of laws, and reject “might makes right,” this is the way: https://twitter.com/ayaan/status/1347690134037262336
There are people on the US left who profess they would do anything to stop the hatred and division in evidence. Anything besides have a conversation, or make friends, with someone they disagree with. https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1347198351553351680
First, it was just about “punching Nazis.” Then it seemed like there were an awful lot more “Nazis” being claimed to exist in the US than was probable. Now, even the ostensibly hated police can be celebrated for killing an unarmed woman if she was a “Nazi.” https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1347381484584316929
It’s okay now to just call a fellow citizen a “pile of meat.” For justice and goodness and the American way. According to some. https://twitter.com/yatakalam/status/1347310108078968834
It’s normal now to defend looting, too. Who could have seen that coming?
‘Oh, it’s insured, it’s no big deal that someone’s entire family business just burned down.’ https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178/one-authors-argument-in-defense-of-looting
‘Oh, it’s insured, it’s no big deal that someone’s entire family business just burned down.’ https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178/one-authors-argument-in-defense-of-looting
It’s tempting for everyone, including us, to draw from the perspective of the things we’ve seen going wrong over the last few years, and say that we’ve found The Cause. But it seems more likely that we’ve all found a lot of symptoms of a very widespread problem.
We should all try to figure it out together, like proper citizens of a liberal democracy who are committed to Enlightenment ideals, before joining a mob becomes the preferred method of problem solving.
That wouldn’t be good for anyone, and definitely not for women and girls.
That wouldn’t be good for anyone, and definitely not for women and girls.
