I still find what happened on here today re: Gina Carano super disturbing & incredibly harmful. I know anytime I say something is shifting in a bad direction someone jumps up to say we were already headed in a bad direction. But seriously, things are headed in a bad direction.
When liberals with large platforms start insisting that we have to be tolerant of cruel bigotry, and that bigots should be exempt from the consequences literally any of us would face if we embarrassed our employers, they aren't just tolerating that shit. They are privileging it.
And when those people start insisting that we have to let that stuff pass without consequence because so many people are doing it, seriously, I find that scary. That's people who are seen as progressive advocating for a moral and material surrender to that shit. Sorry, but it is.
You don't give bigots a pass bc they have done a great job expanding their numbers. That's the reverse of what you do.
And btw that moral surrender I am talking about amounts to the sacrifice of actual human beings. I think that reality has been left out of a lot of the discourse -- particularly from the people saying we just kind of have to negotiate w this stuff being part of the culture now.
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