Don't fall into the trap of believing everything "your tribe" does it right, or that any argument against "you" must be a bad argument. This is classic "but I learned it from you, Dad!" territory.
This is the best argument against Cancel Culture. That it's exactly what christian zealots and Class Supremacists have been doing for decades. If we fought them and won, then we should fight Cancel Culture. And we can win.
But don't fall into the trap of defending the people whose past excesses brought us all to this point.
The "baaad history" of white people (OTHER RACES HAVE WORSE HISTORIES) is being used to justify a genocidal hatred towards white people. Pure evil wants to conquer the world.
This is not news. It also won't magically transfigure mistakes into useful choices.
We police ourselves, so that we do not have to pay the price of being surrounded by yet another variety of reckless, vile ideologues, spouting yet another variety of dishonest, self-serving rhetoric.
It's the same reason we would want our actual police to arrest conservatives when they shoplift, when they attack, etc.
Don't fall into the trap of believing everything "your tribe" does it right, or that any argument against "you" must be a bad argument. This is classic "but I learned it from you, Dad!" territory.
This is the best argument against Cancel Culture. That it's exactly what christian zealots and Class Supremacists have been doing for decades. If we fought them and won, then we should fight Cancel Culture. And we can win.
But don't fall into the trap of defending the people whose past excesses brought us all to this point.
I don't know what you're on about, I and suspect you've just detected my post as "the enemy" and not understood it.
This is not news. It also won't magically transfigure mistakes into useful choices.
We police ourselves, so that we do not have to pay the price of being surrounded by yet another variety of reckless, vile ideologues, spouting yet another variety of dishonest, self-serving rhetoric.
It's the same reason we would want our actual police to arrest conservatives when they shoplift, when they attack, etc.