oh whoops nope okay literal seconds after I hit the play button again she drew a parallel between the vigilantism of cops and twitter mobs "taking justice in their own hands and demanding accountability and consequences for bad behavior".
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lol okay yeah the left-wing hunger for retribution is exactly identical to the right-wing hunger, this is a normal thing to postulate
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she's literally mocking as inherently risible the idea of somebody wanting Amy Cooper to get a life sentence for *checks notes* attempting to murder a random Black man for asking her to use public property correctly I don't support the carceral state, but, uh.
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Like I don't think Cooper should have gotten life in prison either but I don't think it's stupid for the hate crime of attempted murder to be considered on the merits of exactly what it is
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oh okay the popularity of the Richard Spencer punching video is indicative of "a situational form of sadism", alright, yeah, because of course
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Or funny and cathartic to see a nazi punched in the face- if that makes me a sadist
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Replying to @darbehoney @Nymphomachy
I think her point is that "sadism" isn't an evil thing and is a universal human impulse
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ngl I find the lengths people will commonly go to in order to say that “I am glad this person is being hurt/injured/harmed, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside” isn’t ‘sadism’ when they do it because Reasons disturb me more than sadism itself ever could, for p much this reason
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“Actually it doesn’t count as wanting there to be corpses if what I want is dead Nazis”-ass Why Are You Convinced This Defense Is Coherent And Necessary logic when you could just be pro-harm to Nazis but that’d take thinking about more than aesthetics I guess? istg
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @arthur_affect
I mean most primatologists appear to have concluded that we seem to have an innate, biological sense of fairness, I just don't think it's an accurate characterization of appeals to that sense of fairness to call it "sadism"
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We have a bunch of different drives, and several of those drives require harming other people in some way to be satisfied, and thus the existence of those drives leads to our associating other people's pain with our pleasure and what we call "sadism"
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Obviously the word "sadism" from the Marquis de Sade goes a little bit further and takes it into the realm of "perversion" or fetish, of supposedly liking people suffering "for its own sake" But I don't think it's that easy to detach one from the other
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Like that's her whole point, this goes beyond abstract moral approval of wrongdoers being punished, people *actively seek it out*, they make whole subreddits for it, it's one of their hobbies
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