my thoughts on the cavetown situation:
I think what a lot of people aren’t realizing is the difference between ignorance and a genuinely bad person. And that’s why cancel culture is so toxic, jumping to the worst conclusion.
Ignorance is not malice unless it is willful
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we’ve be raised into a culture/society where a lot of offensive things are normalized so when you’ve gone your whole life not thinking there’s anything wrong, you’re not automatically going to know better when you turn 18. you learn when you're taught
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If a person has learned, apologized, and genuinely tries to do better, it’s really just unproductive and harmful to try and cancel them over people who genuinely need to be deplatformed. especially when that person has already clearly grown before old things are brought up
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A mistake/insensitive thing said due to ignorance doesn’t automatically make someone a bad person or warrant cancelling them. It warrants educating them. If they don’t learn and if they remain willfully ignorant or continue to say awful things, then cancel them
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A mistake isn’t a character flaw. ignorance occurs regardless of age. you say "we can't have everything" but that's not true- no one is perfect, and everyone is a bit ignorant. i can guarantee you've said/done something harmful due to ignorance, regardless of age
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All we can do is try and educate people and acknowledge when someone has owned up, apologized, and genuinely does better. those who genuinely are genuinely good people will learn. People who aren't, wont.
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i'm not saying anyone has to accept his apology if they were hurt by what he said. i'm saying that he has grown. he's still learning, like we all are. "cancelling" him is doing more harm than good. it's putting the energy into the wrong people.
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oh uhhh PS i am jewish so i have accepted his apology as far as anti-semitism goes and i genuinely do not believe he is anti-semitic, i think he was just ignorant and insensitive. it still hurts, of course. but i dont believe he is genuinely anti-semitic.

i hope we can take this as a learning moment to recognize how normalized anti-semitism is. i think most non-jewish people are more un-educated/ignorant than they might realize. but the effort and willingness to re-educate yourselves is important and appreciated