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Penny M's avatar

Even Ye's horrific words, while flat-out appalling, are part of a larger story of untreated (intentionally untreated) mental illness, as written about with a base level of compassion and clarity by Freddie deBoer and Ben Dreyfuss. Even the worst crap is often complicated.

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Kees Manshanden's avatar

Mobs are bad, I wholeheartedly agree. I would add one more point of guidance

• Did I understand the tweet correctly? We can all be a little sloppy with our choice of words, did the person really mean what I think he meant?

Case in point: you seemed to imply in the penultimate paragraph that pedophilia should be punished in court. Pedophilia is not a crime (it's not a synonym for child sexual abuse). When someone tweets about pedophilia, it's very easy to conflate the two.

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