Re:Quinn Norton: The New York Times Fired My Doppelgänger
by danso on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @10:37AM
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> since the whole point of the article is you have to be friends and tolerant of bad people to help those people improve
This is the point that I (and I think many others of her critics) disagree with. She claims that isolation/intolerance is untenable, and thus assumes that engagement must be a net positive by comparison. She doesn't consider that engagement could also turn out badly, e.g. how an abused spouse tries in vain to keep a relationship together, nor the unintended consequences of enabling/normalization.
What baffles me is her insistence that isolation/intolerance doesn't work at all. I'm not talking about how the civilized world was "intolerant" of the Nazis by fighting WW2, I mean how the status quo, including education, is to not treat racism/Nazism as acceptable systems of belief. Yes, it's true that people still end up being racist. But how is it that the generations of children/young adults today are far, far more racially/diversity tolerant than the folks who grew up in the 40s/50s? Genetics?
This is the point that I (and I think many others of her critics) disagree with. She claims that isolation/intolerance is untenable, and thus assumes that engagement must be a net positive by comparison. She doesn't consider that engagement could also turn out badly, e.g. how an abused spouse tries in vain to keep a relationship together, nor the unintended consequences of enabling/normalization.
What baffles me is her insistence that isolation/intolerance doesn't work at all. I'm not talking about how the civilized world was "intolerant" of the Nazis by fighting WW2, I mean how the status quo, including education, is to not treat racism/Nazism as acceptable systems of belief. Yes, it's true that people still end up being racist. But how is it that the generations of children/young adults today are far, far more racially/diversity tolerant than the folks who grew up in the 40s/50s? Genetics?