DrZoidberg
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Workplaces also suck when employees have to put up with racist and sexist bullshit from their co-workers. Standards of behaviour are important.
Adults know how to tell the difference. The same words can mean different things depending on context.
Over time colleagues become friends. Friends have much more honest and crude way of saying what they're thinking. Speech is unfiltered and extreme things pop out. Just free associations. At least if people are happy and relaxed around each other. If they're not they shouldn't work there.
I'm not sure what kind of strange world you live in where one needs to be either for or against something and cannot be for parts of it and against other parts. Since I don't live in such a world, I can't relate to or comment on to your experiences in it.
I didn't see you make that distinction. And we have to now. Metoo is so associated with mob rule that unless you're saying you don't mean that, it'll be assumed that you do.
Or ... another plausible scenario is that the decades of a lifetime of pent up emotions over needing to endure this bullshit spilling out will cool down and people will learn to deal with the matter reasonably.
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But it's not happening. I see zero backlash in the left against the mob rule aspect of it. Rather the opposite. It's being treated as a price worth paying or not a big deal. Its explained away... just like you just did. I think you are wrong. I hope you are right. But I think you're wrong. It'll be the new normal and society will find a way to work around it.
Just in this thread men have been insinuated to be babies for worrying about it. I think being fine about MeToo in the left is more common than not being so
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