Originally posted by Shucks
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I'm just uncomfortable with folks trying to fill in the blanks as to motive/decision making process to fit a "villain" narrative. The "villain" narrative may be the correct one. Certainly businesses haven't had a stellar ethical history up to this point, but fundamentally we don't know and if we don't know for sure -- is full blast outrage justified?
I have this suspicion that politically correct pile-ons are more related to what moves cyber-bullying than most of us believe.
And while this sort of thing may come from a much better place -- we seem to be trending to a society where a single thoughtless comment may summon a brutal pile-on that may destroy your career, family life, community place and follow you for the rest of your life.
It's my hope that people realize that we all make thoughtless comments from time to time and while I'm thoroughly anti-religious -- I think we could all benefit a little from "let he without sin cast the first stone" and it'd be nice to differentiate between true malicious hate vs thoughtless move.
I'm just curious if folks look back at all the times they went into politically correct outrage mode -- what was the net result? Oneself being upset, maybe some righteous hi5s with your politically correct bros?
Or did most of the time public opinion win and your side got what you wanted? And did you continue to follow the story past the outcome you were railing for to see if the outcome was as beneficial and corrective as you believed when fighting the good fight?
Not really speaking to anyone in particular, but I feel like in most cases after the outrage pile-on resolves -- most people stop caring about what actually happens and move on to the next thing to be outraged about.
It just feels like a giant mob that lurches from one cause to another being angry without focusing on real change.
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