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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by mc32 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:50AM (#14954456)
The problem with punching up (a revolution, an insurrection, whathaveyou) is that it's indiscriminate. At its worst it's a collective group against an individual rather than indiv-vs-indiv or group-vs-group.

So, while it looks like punching up, having a group "punch up" at someone is actually punching down at an indiv.

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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by etchalon on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:54AM (#14954481)
Yep. That definitely happens. Individuals become totems of their group, sometimes fairly, sometimes unfairly.

But it's near impossible for a collective group of people to perfectly balance their outrage in just the right way, at precisely the right people, for exactly the right amount of time.

We just accept the tradeoff that progress is messy.

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