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As the author gists at: what if we found out that Michealangelo uninvitedly touched a woman’s bottom. Should we then deplatform him, remove his works, and paint
by whoopshanon 8y ago
As the author gists at: what if we found out that Michealangelo uninvitedly touched a woman’s bottom. Should we then deplatform him, remove his works, and paint over the Sistine Chapel in an appeasing off white so that no one else were to subject to his transgressions?
- AgentME 8y agoI think the equation changes a lot once they're dead.
- writepub 8y agoWhy? Why not stop at the legally stipulated punishment proportionate to the crime. Why is there a need to deplatform someone to the same degree, regardless of the gravity of their crime?
- MisterBastahrd 8y agoWell, for one, because we can judge them by the era in which they lived and what the societal standards were at the time. There was no point in time in Bill Cosby's career where drugging a woman to rape her was ever okay. There was no point in time in Louis CK's career where masturbating in front of female subordinates was ever okay. Who knows what went on during Michaelangelo's era?
- AgentME 8y agoNetworks don't necessarily stop reruns just to participate in the punishment of someone. They do it because the audience's perception of someone is changed. Bill Cosby's work and Roseanne weren't directly changed for example, but in their new contexts, many people are uncomfortable now. The networks want to run what people like. If they think people would generally like a different show now over those old reruns, then they're just keeping up with the market. They don't need a court's approval for that.
- tveita 8y agoI don't see the need for tortured hypotheticals when history is already full of flawed artists. You can still get copies of Mein Kampf, how's that for deplatforming. The point isn't to erase people from history, but to stop rewarding, glorifying and shielding them.