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we don’t know if it’ll be a lifelong thing though. I suspect with all this pushback and emotional exhaustion (and I really do believe it’s emotionally exhausting to constantly be hounding over peoples morality on the internet) people will just stop giving a shit about what someone said 5 years ago pretty soon.

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It’s a numbers game. Billions of people won’t care, but a few dozen can make enough of a stink that a habitually risk averse institution would rather let someone be canceled than risk the controversy snowballing into something bigger.

Only if we let them.

There are all kinds of feedback cycles going on. Neither of these two are rational:

1. There are no ways to correct the problem you describe

2. The problem will correct itself without individuals and institutions making it happen

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