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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldOf course...
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    1 day ago

    He jerked himself off in front of a couple of women. It was defo inappropriate, but calling him a “predator” is fucking psychotic. Comparing him to rapists and predators like Weinstein or Diddy cheapens their crimes and invalidates the trauma they caused. It’s like equating a petty thief with a health insurance CEO, or Al Frankens’ “hover hands” to Trumps pedophilia and dozens of sexual assaults.

    None of the hundreds of female comedians and actresses he’s worked with have ever said he treated them inappropriately.









  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldToo harsh?
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    4 days ago

    The world isn’t logical.

    The world IS logical. Fascists are fascist because of racism, propaganda, narcissism — a multitude of causes that made them fascist. Insane people are insane due to something that made/makes them insane. There is logic in their reasons for being illogical.

    An indication of poor logic somewhere is an indication of poor logic elsewhere, and it’s a spectrum. There’s a gargantuan chasm between someone mixing up dates vs being a flat earther. One indicates a singular momentary lapse in logic, which is common. The other indicates widespread corruption in logic; numerous logical failures, across a large range of time, and is reserved for people with extreme mental illness.


  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldToo harsh?
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    Sure, it’s a logical fallacy, but I don’t believe this binary is wholly true. A moral failure in any area indicates a likelihood for moral failures elsewhere. This likelihood is not irrefutable evidence, but it is not in any way illogical, either. It’s basic pattern recognition. If you murder once, there is an increased likelihood to murder again. If you do drugs once, there is an increased likelihood to do drugs again. This is statistically proven.

    It’s like a corrupted database. Sure, the other data may not be corrupted, but now that there’s proven corruption how am I to know what other data is or is not corrupted? Easier to just restore from backup and move on (in this case your backup is anyone else who is not a fascist).

    Of course, I’d probably take Ben Carson’s advice on brain surgery regardless, but that’s because he has undisputed experience in a high skilled field. If he’d been diagnosed with dementia, that does not provide irrefutable evidence against his advice, but I’d probably seek a another opinion. If my GP was fascist, I’d prefer to get recommendations from a different GP.