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It is truly incredible the empathy and contrition privileged people can summon for anyone sufficiently rich and/or white and/or male and/or straight, and how much the humanity of poor people, brown people, women, queer folks... just doesn't even cross their minds.
It's that stupid Julia Ioffe tweet, it's Jon Ronson weeping for the poor Social Media Shamed, it's the THINK OF THE POOR INCELS articles, it's the Peterson idiot blaming men's violence against women ON WOMEN... it just makes me sick.
Can the rest of us get like 2% of that compassion? Ollie North is running the NRA now. Where's my compassionate profile of Ricky Ross (no, not the rapper)? We lament the suffering of the Social Media Shamed, well, Ricky Ross lost the lifestyle he was accustomed to as well!
We've got all the "maybe we should give the incels women's bodies???" articles, where's my "maybe we should let all the immigrants in, including the big bad MS-13ers" article?
When is the New York Times going to do a serious "let's hear them out" profile on black radicals? No, not the polite, comprehensible blue checkmark blacks (although hell I'd settle for that!), but the real "America was and is fundamentally evil" black radicals?
None of that would ever happen, because racists and sexists and just regular old pro-America Americans would never let it happen, and they have the power.
I only came across Jon Ronson recently, but I thought he had a good point about the problems of social media shaming as a means of achieving justice. I'm queer and I don't feel like this is robbing me of other people's compassion. Human compassion isn't a zero-sum game.
I can broadly agree with some of your comment; I just think it's perhaps not correct to frame it to people that empathy for groups traditionally disadvantaged in society is somehow threatened by the view that twitter mobs are actually a reflection of human nastiness.
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