[rectang]

That's what's happening: bad ideas are being defeated. But if those bad ideas are still near and dear to you even while society moves on, it feels bad.

Not everyone has to be persuaded. Some will have to be left behind.

[Veelox]

I think part of the issue is the tactics. The original post was pointing out that the way that bad ideas are being defeated is through force, not through reason. If the law says "Be happy or else" everyone is "happy". The problem being pointed out is that SV is becoming a place where you must believe the right things or else. The or else part is what makes it McCarthyistic.

[rectang]

It's hard for me to get worked up over this when the injustices suffered by those who are now being heard were many times worse.

[asabjorn]

Two wrongs does not make a right. For instance, I fail to see how you can fix things like racism, bigotry and sexism with more of the same.

[rectang]

The indefinite perpetuation of a one-sided wrong does not make a right, either. Relentless oppression must be broken.

[Veelox]

>Relentless oppression must be broken.

I am going to quote the man who has arguably done the most to end oppression in the USA.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - MLKJ

[Veelox]

Just to clarify, it is okay to treat people poorly because people were treated worse in the past?

[rectang]

Many people continue to be treated worse today. But those who are accustomed to dominance cannot tolerate even a single setback without screaming bloody murder. Their endurance is paltry compared to that of the historically oppressed, and their empathy and perspective even more lacking.

[nsxwolf]

If the bad ideas are being defeated, why does their need to be “consequences” for hanging on to them?