Addendum. Enforced consensus in the wake of high-profile death can be extremely oppressive, and should be fought against. Bitterly and rudely, if necessary. But I don't like when it's done in a gleeful or celebratory manner. "Joy" seems like the wrong impulse to cultivate here.
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Not speaking ill of the dead applies to relatives with minor flaws; not public officials who wield institutional power and leave suffering in their wake.
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They hold more responsibility and thus should be held to a higher standard. They don't even come close to meeting that standard.
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And a lot of humanistic impulses suck. Taking the death of a war criminal as opportunity to note his crimes and seek to prevent future similar ones isn't "dunking on the dead," it's working to preserve and cherish the living.
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Not a fan of that either. But there' always time for exceptions bc this ones about narrative itself i.e. what esoteric marketed leftists are permitted to read and what 310 million are..https://twitter.com/DoItForMaMa/status/1068894265995079680 …
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Every time these people die the System seizes upon it as an opportunity to rub out another chunk of history, the only option for survival is to counter this as hard as possible as fast as possible, we should even get to work before they die, will be kissinger soon
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Honesty is the best policy. If we wouldn't write heartfelt obits for foreign war criminals, why should we do it for those who happened to be born in close geographical proximity?
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Honest objectivity will always breed inner conflict like this
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There is no better time to speak good or ill of the dead than when the moment of passing is fresh in the mind. Revering the dead is best reserved for those who deserve reverence.
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And in the case of war criminals, Aaron Maté has a good thought.https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1068739058195664896 …
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He didn’t spend a second thinking about the people he killed, he just continued to murder. If he were a regular citizen that committed such atrocities there would be no “conundrum.”
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death is a pretty sacred thing. where those who have died are the cause of destruction of some kind, I find it satisfying to refrain from the hagiography in general. However, when Kissinger goes, I'm opening champagne.
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The minute I got the push notification (11pm? ugh) I knew you’d be on fire with what might be McCain Round 2. (Feel sorry that it seems you might be trying to circumnavigate bad faith.) I agree, tho I don’t think you have to ascribe to humanism to see cheering as antisocial.
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I feel the same. Thank you for articulating it better than I've been able to.
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There are few who deserve it, but he is definitely among them. Nothing about him makes me see him as anything less than your run of the mill mass murderer
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should there be a standard for dunking? 48 hours after the burial maybe? A vain attempt to keep our humanity.
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