#I am not eager to find out why her being a rape survivor is supposedly relevant

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I, uh, haven’t watched the Lindsay Ellis video yet, but tentatively my opinion before watching it (here, have a salt shaker, maybe I’ll follow up after) is:

Sometimes the social justice world goes a little hard on “anything other than an immediate and thorough apology that contains nothing except apology stuff, means the person is the worst person ever” and, like...people are more complicated than that, and also actions speak louder than words.

For instance: does popular sex advice columnist Dan Savage sometimes mess up big? Yup. Does he tend to get defensive and make things worse when people tell him he messed up? Yep. Does he tend to keep on doing the exact same thing that got people pissed off at him? For all the examples I can think of off the top of my head, no. He doesn’t apologize, but he does actually change his behavior, and that’s more important.

(Of course it’s valid for anyone to decide they personally don’t want anything to do with him.)

Realistically, sometimes people can say exactly the right things on command but still do the wrong things, other times people say the wrong things but they’re still listening and they change their behavior for the better.

And that’s just talking about cases when the accusation/call-out/whatever is justified, which it is not always.

People are flawed and complex, and any movement is inevitably made up of people. So, you need to look at a person’s overall track record.

#discourse #political #social justice #cancel culture #hey kids the left wing circular firing squad is not anything new #even if the language for it has changed #sometimes we attack each other because it’s easier to go after weaker targets #it is not ideal #I am not eager to find out why her being a rape survivor is supposedly relevant