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What blissful times we lived in before the daily drumbeat of “Accomplished young professional discovered to have said offensive things on the internet when they
by rm_-rf_slash 5y ago
What blissful times we lived in before the daily drumbeat of “Accomplished young professional discovered to have said offensive things on the internet when they were a dumb teenager, reputation tarred and feathered for the rest of their life.”
- SamoyedFurFluff 5y agowe don’t know if it’ll be a lifelong thing though. I suspect with all this pushback and emotional exhaustion (and I really do believe it’s emotionally exhausting to constantly be hounding over peoples morality on the internet) people will just stop giving a shit about what someone said 5 years ago pretty soon.
- rm_-rf_slash 5y agoIt’s a numbers game. Billions of people won’t care, but a few dozen can make enough of a stink that a habitually risk averse institution would rather let someone be canceled than risk the controversy snowballing into something bigger.
- thingification 5y agoOnly if we let them. There are all kinds of feedback cycles going on. Neither of these two are rational: 1. There are no ways to correct the problem you describe 2. The problem will correct itself without individuals and institutions making it happen