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1) It feels very wrong that somebody's career can be shot for an obvious joke. As far as I understand it, there's not even an allegation of actual wrongdoing, j
by logicalmonster 4y ago
1) It feels very wrong that somebody's career can be shot for an obvious joke. As far as I understand it, there's not even an allegation of actual wrongdoing, just a joke that a few chose to feign outrage over.
2) Somebody on Blevin's level will probably be okay no matter what. But I feel especially badly for average people caught up in the crossfire of the Twitter mob. An average Joe caught in the crossfire of the outrage mob is fucked. I certainly don't want to live in that world.
3) Do the people pushing the outrage machine think that they're immunized from this machine?
4) Do the people pushing the outrage machine genuinely want to live in a humorless society where you have to be super-careful about anything you ever say, anywhere? I can't stand this bland fakery everywhere.
5) Boo towards Apple for taking the path of least resistance and just giving in to the outrage mob. Has Tim Cook or other executives never made the tiniest joke before?
- hotpotamus 4y agoGiven that this seems to be an emergent phenomena of social media/free speech, you might as well be complaining about the weather for all the difference anyone can make.
- logicalmonster 4y agoAnd? Should I not comment or what? We're humans. We all talk about lots of problems we can't directly solve, whether its war or the environment or anything else.
- hotpotamus 4y agoI'd say you're as free to comment as the twitter mob is.