For every time people pat themselves on the back about getting some nazi fired, consider there's others where the mob gets it wrong (see: Reddit and the Boston bombers).
This stuff is dangerous.
This stuff is dangerous.
The fact this is consider acceptable is the whole problem.
We should not be using cop outs of 'where the mob gets it wrong'.
The only reason you should get someone fired is they are bad at their job and they have been given a chance to improve.
So people are turning to alternative means. It worries me, but at the same time I want to see justice. I feel conflicted about it.
Politically, on the one side you have people screaming about the rule of law. I think that would be ideologically consistent if they also supported increased law enforcement pressure on these kinds of crimes. But they generally don't.
On the other side, you have people arguing we need to take the law into our own hands and fight back against "fascism", white supremacy, all of these things. But those same people don't generally want to take responsibility for the crimes they are complicit in (war crimes, theft of indigenous land, soft racism, etc).
I don't see a clear resolution, although I think the whole situation is a reaction to the internet forcing increased self-awareness on us, and us not being able to deal with the possibility that we're genuinely bad people. The internet showed us how much violence we're complicit in, and we're reacting by getting real mad at whoever is far enough away for us to dissociate from.
> So people are turning to alternative means. It worries me, but at the same time I want to see justice. I feel conflicted about it."
Well said. In some ways this seems a bit like transferring the moral questions of vigilante justice in comics to the individual person. If you see an injustice that will not be corrected, do you have the power/obligation to correct it?
The main failing is the lack of certainty, which should be one of the main focuses here.
There's a reason "the system" seems incapable of dealing with the crime of 'holding an opinion I disagree with'.
Hint: it's not a crime.
The crimes that were listed are very good examples of how we have lost the rule of law. The internet is allowing the average person to realize the two-tier nature of the justice system and extent of systemic corruption. After suffering through decades of abuse from systems that were theoretically "of the people", how do you expect people to react?
Hint: Sticking your head in the sand and pretending these problems don't exist isn't a good long-term survival strategy.
Did you actually read the memo? If he's a nazi, then so is 95% of the world's population.
I don't think he's necessarily a Nazi though, just a spoiled biggot who hasn't walked a mile in anyone's shoes, not even his own.
What was disgusting about saying 'hey maybe the reason that women aren't in software is that they don't want to be in software and there's nothing wrong with that as long as the women that are in software are treated well'?