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> Cosby was always creepy Always? At all times? Congratulations on seeing it coming; you're luckier than apparently a few dozen women. > blurring of people W

> Cosby was always creepy Always? At all times? Congratulations on seeing it coming; you're luckier than apparently a few dozen women. > blurring of people Which is a worse fallacy, blurring Cosby into Louis into Keillor into Barr, or blurring Barr into Keilorr into Louis into Cosby? Or how about this: each case is different? > market based companies not wanting anything to do with you any more because you suck More precisely: coordinated pressure campaigns to intimidate market-based companies, and a lack of pushback from the people who just want to stream some R. Kelley, but are too scared to speak up. > in no way analogous When platforms act in concert under pressure through culture-wide groupthink, it might not technically be Soviet censorship, but it's pretty damn analogous.

glangdale 8y ago
OK, it was unfair to say 'always', but a more nuanced version of my point would have been: "it does not strengthen a case to claim that only in retrospect could Cosby, performer of the infamous 'Spanish Fly' routine, can be considered too creepy to be 'America's Dad'". Soviet censorship involved the exercise of the hard power of the state to achieve permanent removal of the person or their imprisonment for political reasons, and the 'groupthink' attitudes referred to here involved wholesale redaction of news and the historical record. "Pretty damn analogous" is true only if we consider a slap in the face "pretty damn analogous" to murder.
- orbitingpluto 8y ago
  As a child, I was extremely uncomfortable with Dr. Huxtable when he was in his office. I would regularly walk away from the show when he was in his at-home office alone with someone. When I later saw Philip Banks in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, I consciously compared the two. One felt safe and nurturing, the other did not. When a criminal's art replicates the conditions in which he committed crimes, I would hope that the commercial and artistic value of that work would diminish considerably. I hope that the Cosby show would not be able to survive continued syndication. However it should still be thrown into the bargain bin of available entertainment for posterity. In my opinion, deleting the Cosby show erases the chance for others to obtain that same impression.

glangdale 8y ago

OK, it was unfair to say 'always', but a more nuanced version of my point would have been: "it does not strengthen a case to claim that only in retrospect could Cosby, performer of the infamous 'Spanish Fly' routine, can be considered too creepy to be 'America's Dad'". Soviet censorship involved the exercise of the hard power of the state to achieve permanent removal of the person or their imprisonment for political reasons, and the 'groupthink' attitudes referred to here involved wholesale redaction of news and the historical record. "Pretty damn analogous" is true only if we consider a slap in the face "pretty damn analogous" to murder.

orbitingpluto 8y ago
As a child, I was extremely uncomfortable with Dr. Huxtable when he was in his office. I would regularly walk away from the show when he was in his at-home office alone with someone. When I later saw Philip Banks in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, I consciously compared the two. One felt safe and nurturing, the other did not. When a criminal's art replicates the conditions in which he committed crimes, I would hope that the commercial and artistic value of that work would diminish considerably. I hope that the Cosby show would not be able to survive continued syndication. However it should still be thrown into the bargain bin of available entertainment for posterity. In my opinion, deleting the Cosby show erases the chance for others to obtain that same impression.