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It seems the latest game is to go through and audit one's friends, looking for things they might have liked in the past that don't mesh with one's current views.

A couple of folks now have expressed concern that their "friends" liked an individual in the past who has since expressed views that make it politically inexpedient to like them now.1

People are literally digging through their friends' history to look for things by which they can be offended.

Their posts passively convey a threat of, "If you don't go and remove that then maybe we need to rethink our friendship..."

I don't think I ever "liked" this individual of interest, but I can't be bothered to go through my history to check. Having "liked" this individual in the past would not translate to any kind of current support. A mouse click in the past is not the equivalent of erecting an Confederate statue on one's front lawn.

I refuse do sanitize my history. I am not proud of some of it, and there are a lot of things that I once embraced that I no longer do now but I won't deny them.

And I won't erase them to spare somebody offence, not when they have to actively dig to find them.

Seriously, folks, get a grip. There are enough appalling things happening around us right now. There's no need to go trawling for triggers.

1I am intentionally being vague so as not to call out any individuals.

Date: 2020-09-28 04:43 am (UTC)
aurifer: (Default)
From: [personal profile] aurifer
Honestly, thank you for being reasonable. It seems like we've got way more children on social sites, and so high-school politics are coming into it. The baffling part is that it's seeping up the chain to people in their 20s. Maybe those who feel a strong urge to conform?

Date: 2020-09-28 05:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] frith
Human nature and proclivities come in many flavours. The more we embrace what we have in common and the less we claim a nigh divine high ground, the more we can function as a society.

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