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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by monktastic1 on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:03AM (#26352951)
The modern far left understanding is that intention doesn't matter one whit. Only outcome does. And if the outcome is that someone was offended, the only valid reason is that you are a bad person and should be made to feel bad -- ideally, as publicly as possible. Of course, this is only true if the offended party falls into one of a number of sanctioned buckets.

I wish I were making this up.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by axaxs on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:26AM (#26353097)
That's lunacy.

One of my favorite quotes, because it was so eye opening to me, was along the lines of "we judge ourselves by our intentions, but others by their actions."

I realized how true and unfair that is, and tried since to understand intentions before making judgment.

Frankly, anyone who tells me that is wrong will never convince me. Maybe I don't fit in this world anymore.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by yerwhat01010 on Friday March 05, 2021 @07:55AM (#26356317)
It's the purest of narcissism. When you say "intent doesn't matter", what you're actually saying is "you don't matter. The only thing that matters is how I feel about it". It's a manipulative trick used to invalidate everyone's feelings except your own. I'd expect it from a child, and it astonishes me that grown adults can't see through it.
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