"Where were you before!" and "you're surprised?" is the political equivalent of "this isn't new!" People want to justify their passivity.
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Replying to @zeynep
"This isn't new" is always true to a degree. Nothing is ever completely new. But there are new dynamics. Way forward is to understand them.
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"Where were you before" is not what people who care about protecting the most vulnerable would say. Who cares? Here now? Yes? Move forward.
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The cynical, savvy, well-read "nothing to see here" crowd could watch the world burn, saying we always had fire! Did you object before? See.
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I understand the cynical take, but really, most of it is people wanting to broaden their circle of passivity, to justify their own. meh.
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Not everyone can or should to be engaged with everything. But why try to discourage and tsk-tsk everyone else? That's the pernicious part.
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I wrote something about this a while ago, in a slightly different variation: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2014/02/01/anti-solutionism/ …
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