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The thing about having rules that everybody is constantly breaking is that they let you selectively enforce them on your enemies. Drug laws have been historical
by version_five 4y ago
The thing about having rules that everybody is constantly breaking is that they let you selectively enforce them on your enemies. Drug laws have been historically like this and used more against minorities e.g.
So when pictures surface of someone that the in crowd doesn't like is an old Halloween costume, they all play it up as if the person's a monster. Realistically, few if anyone actually care deep down, and so when the same thing happens to someone currently in favor, it's easy to let it slide.
The problem isn't that justin Trudeau (who I despise incidentally) got a pass for dressing up in a costume (which obviously wasn't remotely offensive in the context it was in), it's that other people's careers have been destroyed for the same thing.
Just like e.g. Bill Clinton "not inhaling" - nobody gives a shit if he smoked pot. But simultaneously thousands of people, mostly who are "undesirables" in the eyes of law enforcement for one reason or another get incarcerated for it.
- mhuffman 4y agoVery well put! Selective enforcement is the key here. When everyone doesn't get to play by the same rule or even know the rules in some cases, how do you have a functioning society?
- shadowgovt 4y agoMostly the way we do right now: learn as one goes and pay attention.
- calvinmorrison 4y ago"Trudeau said he wore blackface “makeup” in high school to sing “Day-O,” a Jamaican folk song famously performed by African-American singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte. TIME has confirmed that a photo shows Trudeau at a school talent show wearing blackface and an afro wig." - TIME Nah man that's just straight up blackface minstrel, extremely racist and bad. Sorry, you're confusing it with the other time he wore blackface.
- wonderwonder 4y agoHonestly though, why is this important? He meant no offense and no one was hurt. Should we advocate for ending his career because of something he did in highschool?
- calvinmorrison 4y agoalmost Certainly not. We should only hold past indiscretions against people we have opposing political opinions with
- wonderwonder 4y agoPolitically me and Trudeau are very far apart, he is very much further left than I am. I just don't think youthful indiscretions that harm no one and are not criminal in nature should haunt someone for the rest of their lives.
- shadowgovt 4y agoThe realpolitik of the thing is that when bad stuff comes out, the value people perceive the perpetrator brings is weighed against the bad stuff. In essence, cost of keeping them vs. cost of marginalizing them. Some folks were just too valuable to marginalize. Some aren't. But that's pretty true of any space humans operate in, whether the bad stuff is Halloween costume choices or bad hygiene. If there are a hundred Justin Trudeaus to choose from, the one that was racist gets left by the wayside (I think this is what scares people about this sort of thing... They realize they aren't special enough to step out of line).