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10 years later, the moment is here. What will you do, even if just quietly to yourself in your heart?
I actually saw that and my heart just sank. I can kinda sorta understand an attempt to hold teachers to a higher standard, as they are role models and directly involved in childhood indoctrination, so I think some sort of awareness about having to watch what you say is to some degree expected when you enter the field. Academia it's a little less clear-cut because everyone involved is an adult. Personally I don't like it too much there. Famous people is also a bit of a weird area, because they fundamentally (well, certain categories of them at least) rely on people's opinion for their living, so talking about people's opinions of you seems like more or less fair play. All of these examples have at least some logical connection where there is an awareness of responsibility.
Retail? Please. She even works up front, which is, if not quite the most thankless job in a Home Depot (that belongs to overnight and lot crew), it's most definitely the one where you get the most abuse - from management, customers, everybody. I can't even think of a moral justification other than "I just don't like what they said and want them to be punished." It's not like she said anything at work, it's not that she can't help people or do her job properly, but instead it's using corporations as a weapon against private people. There's no symmetry, no proportionality, and of course no heart. Let's distinguish between the wishes of the heart and the concrete actions that affect others, both on her part and on LoTT's part.
I mean, can anyone defend this in an actual way, or is this just pure feelings venting?
Ahem
I'm not going to cry about her prospects. Not when shit like this happened.
This wasn't corporations, this was driving a man to suicide through long-term decentralized harassment, condoned and encouraged by the Democrats.
Call me after one of these people is driven to suicide. Maybe I'll be more willing to listen then. Not now, but maybe then.
Damn the comments on the WaPo post linked to in the tweet are a different level of unhinged. If you sort by most liked you get stuff like:
Amazing how this sort of stuff was seen as OK, nay supported by the zeitgeist, just 4 short years ago back in 2020. There's no way it would fly today (I'd expect all three of these to be swiftly deleted by the WaPo moderators if the story was being told today) and even reading them gives me a certain level of shock. I guess this was what the residents of Salem felt in the years after the witch trials. The past is a different country, as they say...
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