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.
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.
The only people one should try to fire are politicians.
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.
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.