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A smart man once said, "I'd rather be a hypocrite than the same person forever." It was Adam Horovitz, of Beastie Boys, when confronted about going from sexism
by dmos62 5y ago
A smart man once said, "I'd rather be a hypocrite than the same person forever." It was Adam Horovitz, of Beastie Boys, when confronted about going from sexism in their early content to defending gender equality later in life.
- RedComet 5y agoLmfao, I definitely didn't expect to see someone brown nosing the beastie boys today. I've finally seen it all.
- mustacheemperor 5y agoBased on your post history, it seems like you may not be familiar with the expectations for discourse in this community. Per the guidelines[0] > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. It looks like a lot of your grey comments did not follow this guideline. I see you've been here since 2018, but maybe nobody ever brought it up. This community is different from other places like reddit, and its partly because of these practices. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- RedComet 5y agoI've been here a lot longer than that. But one must keep in mind, when those guidelines were written, no one fathomed a comment attributing a vanilla statement to a beastie boy after praising him as smart would be made. This makes ≈3 snarky comments, the rest were simply unpopular.
- dmos62 5y agoI've nothing but respect for the group, including the member I mentioned. Instead of all this trash talk you could have just said what bothers you about them.
- RedComet 5y agoForemost is what I said before - the quote is entirely unremarkable and unoriginal. You could easily choose a quote with the same content but said by someone actually remarkable, although there is literally no reason to quote here at all here since anyone that has made it through adolescence has came to the same realization. What catapulted it from silly to amusing was that the person you quoted is entirely unremarkable, known only for being in a group that made some of the worst "music" I have ever heard get regular radio play.
- rualca 5y agoThe quote is particularly relevant to the thread, and who made the quote matters little to nothing except for the fact that the person did had a very public change of heart regarding a specific topic. Why do you feel you need to ignore the substance of the quote and instead deflect it with cheap ad-hominem attacks? The image you're conveying of yourself is that you're willing to forego discussing things rationally to instead focus your energy in petty persona attacks and deflections.
- yongli 5y agoI'm not sure what other peoples' conception of hypocrisy is, but for me I think that it's acting in a manner that contradicts, or is at odds with your espoused beliefs. The simultaneous part is important, if your beliefs change and your actions change accordingly; that doesn't count as hypocrisy in my book.
- maybeOneDay 5y agoSimilarly, for the fantasy nerds: "Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing." - Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
- effingwewt 5y agoI do this with myself constantly. I think if I met my younger self I would hate me. I don't know how far back in time it takes for a disconnect of 'who was I then to do that?' or 'I can't believe I did that' but sometimes I think back to recent things and get so embarrassed my face turns red and heats up. Like Bill Burr sometimes I have to scream it out and wriggle to release the shame.
- dariusj18 5y agoI recently reread some of my livejournal posts. I definitely hate me.
- 8458e112e7b2 5y agoOh? Why isn't the same consideration given to people hit by "cancel culture"?
- dmos62 5y agoAre you asking why mob intelligence is not intelligent?