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Woah, there's a difference between an "internet lynch mob" doing it and the state doing it!
by tome 9y ago
Woah, there's a difference between an "internet lynch mob" doing it and the state doing it!
- jsonne 9y agoAgreed. I was bringing up that in my mind they both fall under the same overarching trend I've been seeing in the west for a while.
- anf 9y agoIf you don't want things you post screen-shot-ed and re-pasted, don't post them on the internet under your real name?
- Consultant32452 9y agoIf you don't want your career destroyed and your life threatened, don't come to work on "no whites" day at your college.
- anf 9y agoIf your career can be destroyed by having the opinions you decided to post in a public forum under your real name copy-pasted, you're an idiot.
- Consultant32452 9y agoThe image you're invoking of people getting copy pasta-ed on Facebook is some crazy racist wackjob stuff. Bret Weinstein had his career ruined by simply showing up to work on a day the students decided whites weren't welcome at school.
- anf 9y agoRight. I was commenting on the former, not the latter. Per the other example — haven't heard of Bret's story, but if your career is "ruined" by showing up on a day anyone decides whites aren't welcome, seems safe to say you're better off without that career path?
- mirimir 9y agoThat's been my approach, for sure. But then, Mirimir also has a reputation that's worth protecting.
- zaroth 9y agoYeah, the USA would never have anything like an extrajudicial no-fly list for people the government doesn’t like...
- drefanzor 9y agoThe state does do it. It's called a criminal record which is strikingly easy to obtain in the U.S. which has a law for everything imaginable. If you've ever had any kind of criminal activity, ever, even from something dumb in your youth, the United States has a log of it, which employers use to discriminate against that person. Forever. It doesn't go away. The "miscreant" is then forced either into a life of crime, which puts them into prison or worse.
- mfoy_ 9y agoA criminal record, while cumbersome and overly-easy to attain, doesn't impose nearly the same scope of restrictions as this article suggests...
- maxerickson 9y agoDo you even need a criminal record to end up on the No Fly List (or the less consequential terrorist watch list)? I think it is only really different in scale.
- zxcvbn4038 9y agoThat is absolutely true - even if you are lucky enough to have a charge removed from your criminal record, everything on your arrest record will outlive you. Thats a problem since today every little thing gets you arrested - your average school yard brawl will get kids arrested for assault. However, on the bright side so many people have been arrested or jailed in this country that employers have had to start taking people with minor offenses just because there are so few people who make it to adulthood without at least one encounter with the law.
- enriquto 9y agoIf random idiots can internet lynch mob you, so does the state. And so will the state, if the need arises.
- nopriorarrests 9y agothere is a difference, but it's not black and white. sure, state is much more powerful. however, state plays by the rules, and if the rules (aka laws) are changed, state will leave you alone. And laws could be changed. good luck trying to stop the mob, though.