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[la_vie_noire]

This woman apparently has had the ILLUMINATING and UNIQUE thought that POLITICALLY CORRECT BULLSHIT has gone out of hand. She will START A REVOLUTION against the corrupted blogging system. (That will end in her maintaining her right to say... racist jokes, I guess.)

Uhm. These (white, cis, able-boded, etc., etc., because I just love to say it - and even if I don't say it, it won't make it less true) people and their revolutionary epiphanies.

ETA: Also, people, I have to study so I won't be here much. Not that I was being uber-active these days, but just to be safe.

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[la_vie_noire]

Look, I hope you can clarify better because I don't know if I'm misunderstanding you. I'll explain what is the problem with "bullying" etc., when it's used to people reacting against oppression. The problem is that an apology really doesn't erase anything. An apology sometimes isn't even going to compare with the damage done. Hell, everyone it's different, so how they react to the damage done to them (and subsequent apology) will vary. But I really, really don't see anything wrong about talking about wrong behavior after the people who did it apologized. Because an apology, well meant as it may be, doesn't erase the context around the hypothetical oppressive behavior, and doesn't stop all the hurting the people offended and oppressed will continue to live because that behavior was part of a big system. And apology is just a personal thing, between people, to show that the one doing the damage, "knows they did something wrong and feels sorry." And that's all.

I mean, as long as the people discussing and "calling up" aren't getting into insulting, offensive territory, I don't see why talking about, "well, what this person did just shows how much..." and so, and so entries are damaging. On the contrary. And seriously, even "well meant, honest" apologies bore some people, specially when the people doing so are fawned over and the damage is continued to be perpetrated. I don't know, they are so many types of situations, and it's kinda arrogant to tell someone, "this is the CORRECT way you should take this well-meaning person who damaged you," don't you think?

But well, if you are talking about an hypothetical situation where someone apologized decently and never did something wrong again, and people continued to GO to that person and... call them names (or something), I have to see it.