In this particular case; Mr Bob Martin is kind of a repeat offender. As far as I am concerned he's just another one of the overly famous white dudes with horrib

In this particular case; Mr Bob Martin is kind of a repeat offender. As far as I am concerned he's just another one of the overly famous white dudes with horrible opinions that have made the Ruby community seem quite toxic to many outsiders. Aside from stepping in on this thread; I certainly have not put him on blast on my twitter because as far as I'm concerned he's an irrelevancy. However, I do think that shame is a necessary part of a functioning civil society; particularly in a society where the levers of power have been systematically stolen by a faction that seems determined to ride the society into war to consolidate their power. A faction that willfully provokes ethnic cleansing to give their supporters a taste for blood. You may think I am being hyperbolic in my description of American politics; but I am if anything underselling it because I hope to reach a few people reading this thread. Calling out people who are normalizing active ethnic cleansing campaigns is just one part of it. People saying crap like Mr Martin should be shamed by the people who think they can be salvaged. But informing someone that their behavior is shameful and evidence of a reprehensible callousness to the humanity is not a particularly life-ruining event for the one being called out. Trying to excuse their behavior and take the lever of shame away from those who are attempting trigger society's immune response is bad and dangerous because it normalizes those opinions and makes them likely to spread further. tl;dr Don't shoot at the firemen trying to save your house.