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"Famously a felon" sounds to me like politics on the face of it. The word "famously" makes it so. Maybe the people to whom you refer just have different concer
by perl4ever 5y ago
"Famously a felon" sounds to me like politics on the face of it. The word "famously" makes it so.
Maybe the people to whom you refer just have different concerns about things which they see as different.
People see hypocrisy everywhere when they refuse to contextualize anything the same way as another person does.
It's a way of "laundering" prejudice as "logic".
- tptacek 5y agoThis is a weird special pleading argument. Chelsea Manning is literally a celebrity, and that is entirely because of actions she undertook that resulted in a 35-year prison sentence. It's not a value judgement about the sentence (I'm glad Obama commuted it). It's a simple statement of fact.
- perl4ever 5y agoA special pleading argument? How can you say I didn't justify a distinction when you compared her to "ordinary" ex-convicts, which sounds like non-celebrities? The issue is not double standards, the issue is disagreement on what attributes are salient. Just pretend the first two sentences of my previous comment aren't there. I don't care if you agree. The rest of it stands by itself. It's abstract and not related to these events. Your original complaint was just "why do people only care about who they care about?" I wanted to communicate how tautological I found it.