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Fortin's avatar

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I found this post extremely moving and courageous. I wish more people would stand up and say what (I believe) they really feel about this particular zeitgeist.

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Olivia's avatar

Hmmm-

All this exposure and getting hell bent on punishing those who fail to be perfect is absurd. “People in glass houses….”

When did the “moral police” walk into town? This is still America right?

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Hugo Schwyzer's avatar

I think if we go back to our Puritan roots, we’ve always had a persecutorial, censorious moralizing impulse. Sometimes it’s on the right, sometimes the left, but it is always as cruel as it is self-righteously assured it is just.

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Olivia's avatar

Yes, good ‘ol guilt tripping puritanical ways that probably imposed two weeks of vacation ought to suffice.

Puritans, Calvinists, and Catholics…oh my! Lol!

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Hugo Schwyzer's avatar

I appreciate the reminder that the Woke Mob has a long memory, and a formidable capacity for sadism tarted up as justice.

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P Ray's avatar

I might’ve agreed with you in another instance but then I remember how you would make fun of men who failed to launch, think you called it the trifecta of pot PlayStation and pornography. Why not give the benefit of the doubt to someone who failed to launch?

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Hugo Schwyzer's avatar

Anything I wrote before my fall represents a me that I have long since repudiated. I was an arrogant writer, and I was often unkind.

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P Ray's avatar

It’s ironic because your demise ally jessaca valenti calls what you did himpathy

I call it sociopathy

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P Ray's avatar

Should read feminist ally

Autocorrect ispunative and unforgiving

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