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If you have views that are ignorant and prejudice, and you act on those views in ways that harm other people, you should take responsibility for that, and there
by vegetablepotpie 5y ago
If you have views that are ignorant and prejudice, and you act on those views in ways that harm other people, you should take responsibility for that, and there should be consequences. Saying that your ignorance and prejudice is a valid political opinion, does not change how people should respond to you. Attempts to politicize bad behavior is disingenuous and a thought terminating cliche.
Claiming cancel culture in the face of valid criticism is an easy out for powerful people who refuse to take responsibility.
Failure to have awareness and take responsibility is the thing that is destroying society. For some reason the institutions that should have been enforcing personal responsibility have failed to do so. Rather than giving up, people are organizing to form new institutions. You may like, or dislike them, but they are going to be different than the one that came before.
- notsureaboutpg 5y ago>If you have views that are ignorant and prejudice, and you act on those views in ways that harm other people, you should take responsibility for that Will DA Chesa Boudin take responsibility for his "progressive" / "anti-incarceration" policies in San Francisco which led to a rise in crime? Will the "defund the police" crowd take responsibility for the rise in crime they have caused? Both political parties have ignorant views which are harmful. In a lot of ways, pro-choice policies are harmful and even deadly (and through a different lens, pro-life policies are also harmful and even deadly). The whole thing about politics is that you cannot objectively determine the harm of the beliefs involved.