This is my main point about the ending of The Emperor's New Clothes being wrong Unpopular pariahs DO get their ideas vindicated by reality and society DOES change its mind, a lot, cynical takes on this story notwithstanding But they don't come back and apologize to youhttps://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1288160161757044745 …
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What, because he thought slaveowners were pustulent shitstains and he said so all the time? Fuck you man If that made him "hard to work with" it means his colleagues were all shitty people, not him
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This always happens, again and again The "loud intemperate attention seeking SJWs" point out the Emperor has no clothes Then ten years after he dies the centrist mainstream finally passes a bill acknowledging his nudity and pats themselves on the back for making progress
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And then turn around and scold the SJWs saying maybe if they'd been less right less early on their cause would've benefited from them presenting as less "extremist" "Why did Sumner have to go and get himself almost beaten to death by saying such inflammatory things"
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John Brown’s Body is a’Moulderin’ in the Grave
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I think all the time about how the man who realized you should wash your hands before delivering a baby was like ... mocked and ridiculed and maybe had a major psychiatric breakdown over it, since apparently his personality changed drastically.
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My beloved Ignacio Semmelweis. Yup.
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Not to mention he was beaten nearly to death in the senate floor.
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If we lauded people for being ahead of their time we would be implicitly obliged to address the abuses of our own time. That scorn is us protecting ourselves from the ugly truths on which our comforts depend. Which was obviously even more crucial for past middle classes.
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