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by naters 3605 days ago
Jeez, that seems unduly dismissive. While the title of the article might suggest that it follows the rhetoric you're suggesting, it is in fact a pretty well founded critique of "call out culture" and how it is a very real impediment to meaningful social change.

I think the main problem with this line of thinking represented in this article (and maybe this is what you are getting at) is that the use of shame in political dialogue is a trait exclusive to the left. It has many parallels in conservative thinking, but maybe in ways that we have grown used to (e.g. values based on religious fundamentalism).

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> I think the main problem with this line of thinking represented in this article (and maybe this is what you are getting at) is that the use of shame in political dialogue is a trait exclusive to the left.

That is what I was getting at.

You're right though, it was very dismissive. I should know better.

I just tired of that same old 'us versus them', 'left versus right' back-and-forth, simplistic tribalism.