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I was having this exact conversation with a friend the other day. To engage in any form of (even remotely) political discourse on the internet is to step into a
by logshipper 5y ago
I was having this exact conversation with a friend the other day. To engage in any form of (even remotely) political discourse on the internet is to step into a landmine once you consider the 20-year horizon. People are now being fired for things they said as teenagers [1], and while I am all for anti-racism and inclusiveness, have we forgotten that people grow and change with time? That we are products of our society and those societies often imbibe us with some blind spots that we later come to recognize?
The only way I can see out of this displaced and performative moralism is to not attach your name to anything that could be considered even remotely problematic in the future.
To get rid of old tweets, FB posts, anyone reading this might want to try the Jumbo app [2].
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/media/teen-vogue-editor-alexi-mccammond.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/media/teen-vogue...
[2] https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/jumbo-privacy-security/id1454039975 https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/jumbo-privacy-security/id14540...
- malandrew 5y ago> those societies often imbibe us with some blind spots that we later come to recognize? It's not just blind spots you recognize and correct. There are societies in history like the USSR, the DDR, North Korea, etc., where those with dissenting views weren't the ones with the blind spots, but that it was society itself that developed blind spots and punished those that did not go along with those blind spots.