I need to write a thing on what I think is the right way to protest. Ways that are effective but not intimidating or authoritarian.
If Hunt had been serious, lots of people laughing at him cld well have made him embarrassed to say such a thing again.
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When it turned out he wasn't, it wouldn't have been the end of the world. We'd have been laughing with him. No damage done.
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Instead, he was reduced to tears, contemplated suicide & felt compelled to resign because of the unreasoning rage & demands for punishment.
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When that happened and I saw the hashtag, I thought 'Yes, they're getting it right. They're making this outdated attitude laughable'.
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This is meaningful. People will see the problem. But then the calls for punishment started & a witchhunt & all meaning was lost.
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People love a good witch hunt. I often say we haven't changed much in our moral attitude towards people. Few agree with me on this.
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I think there have always been moralists and always been humanists. I detest a witchhunt on a visceral level.Feel empathy even for arseholes
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It's what makes you a nice person. But while studying psychology I have seen multiple scenario's where ppl in large groups do horrible
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things. On their own they're good people. But in groups they can turn into vicious monsters for a short while to the person persecuted.
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