Calling out, in my book, requires an intelligent, thoughtful treatment of the behavior and subject.
GP took a cheap quip at a dead man, for laughs and karma.
And just because he was (by all accounts) an asshole, that flies? And doesn't just fly, but inspires righteous indignation that anyone would feel it's disrespectful?
Yeah, I have a hard time dancing on a persons grave. Unless they've done something totally evil, they should be afforded some respect. That said, hearing about Limbaugh's condition tested my ability to live by that principle.
> In upstate New York he held back for over a decade any effort to mitigate legacy PCB pollution from GE’s mostly closed factories there. He funded AstroTurf organizations and downplayed research showing connections between PCB pollution and health problems.
To be fair, most commenters on Hacker News are more likely to have suffered the detrimental effects of Jack Welch's acts and philosophy than the effects of Fidel Castro's rule. Not every moral judgment needs to be made on pure global utilitarian principles
Wow. Reading just the top comment there and then the responses in this thread is pretty eye opening.
But then again - "I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity. By definition they're partisan."