I wonder if there's something of a crying wolf issue here. The argument is being used in I-don't-agree situations as much as in situations where people have been assaulted. It's similar to the "I'm sick of celebrities getting away with stuff!" argument. A celebrity says something stupid, people say "Let up on them already, it was an off-the-cuff interview, they were tired, it didn't come out right, whatever," and somebody's all "WHY DO WE LET CELEBRITIES GET AWAY WITH THAT?" and my reply is like "We let people we actually know get away with that all the time." But then you get a situation like Woody Allen's sex abuse thing, and NOW people who are like "she must be lying. You need to cut Allen a break. We need more evidence"... okay, THAT'S letting celebrities get away with stuff. He needs to face the consequences of his crimes.
Now, me, I would tend to still be KIND to an unrepentant villain like that, but in a, "Sorry, dude, you've gone too far. You're OUT" sort of way. Like Justin Bieber being a stupid kid. He did the crime, he does the time, I won't argue with that, but he IS a stupid out-of-control kid so he doesn't need to be MOCKED by adults in power, either, you know?
But if ignorant comments (and I mean "ignorant" in the true sense of the word, "not knowing," not just kids going "Stop being ignorant to me!") are getting shut down with the same ferocity as people who want to gloss over serious injustices, the argument loses some of its strength.
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Date: 2014-02-09 10:27 pm (UTC)From:Now, me, I would tend to still be KIND to an unrepentant villain like that, but in a, "Sorry, dude, you've gone too far. You're OUT" sort of way. Like Justin Bieber being a stupid kid. He did the crime, he does the time, I won't argue with that, but he IS a stupid out-of-control kid so he doesn't need to be MOCKED by adults in power, either, you know?
But if ignorant comments (and I mean "ignorant" in the true sense of the word, "not knowing," not just kids going "Stop being ignorant to me!") are getting shut down with the same ferocity as people who want to gloss over serious injustices, the argument loses some of its strength.