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The Shame Culture

7 pointsby kornishabout 9 years ago

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dtylerabout 9 years ago
The left often takes pride in how much progress this nascent massively multiplayer shame culture has wrought. After all, didn&#x27;t the current generation&#x27;s attitudes towards same sex marriage for instance, make it possible for it to be legalized across America?<p>There is a logical limit to applying a proverbial hammer till progress is achieved; you need the willing cooperation of the majority of society and that requires people to be on board with you idealogically; you can&#x27;t do that by antagonizing them. See how &quot;cis white straight male&quot; is almost used like an epithet now, how &quot;punching up&quot; can never be wrong.<p>Face it, shamers aren&#x27;t going to be liked. And you can&#x27;t shame people into liking you.