The Warlock Hunt https://wp.me/p4ja0Z-Kyw via @aminterest I argue (contra Time), that the #MeToo
moment has now morphed into a moral panic that poses as much danger to women as it does to men.
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...others. And then that real moral improvement, which I hope we hold on to, has a natural tendency to become a witch hunt as is very much baked into human nature. But there are some real warlocks loose; there weren't witches or Satanic child abusers. 3/
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I think you said it implicitly, but it could stand to be made even more explicit: the problem is not cascading accusations of sexual assault. It's good we have those. The problem is that we can't be grownups about balancing mercy with deterrence when considering what might... 4/
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...have been thought to have been flirting, but could be seen as degrading, as initiated by a man who wasn't perfectly unbiased about guessing that, but nobody's perfect, but we can't say that about every crime, but the rules were unwritten, but there can still be bastards etc.
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