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    05 months ago

    I think Peterson had a YouTube audience before he got fired, but his lectures then were mostly mundane ramblings about philosophy and psychology.

    I think it’s fine to call people out on their shit, but too many people see themselves as the arbitors of justice, with no room for rehabilitation or recourse.

    The dumbest thing about the Dave Chapelle protests outside Netflix was the entitlement. They wanted to keep their subscriptions while demanding Dave gets kicked off.

    They had it backwards. The correct course of action is to stop supporting Netflix and encourage others to do so.

    For the consumer to demand that the publisher punishes the performer, so the consumer can continue to utilise the platform is just so spineless.

    It’s like protesting nestle. “Stop poisoning baby formula in third world countries, so I don’t feel morally bankrupt from buying your bottled water”

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      15 months ago

      Did the Chappelle thing go anywhere? I thought it was DOA, although I’m not familiar with the controversy at all.

      He made trans jokes? Or jokes about how he didn’t understand transsexuals?

      At least with Nestle. There’s a lot of actual corporate litigation going after the itself for utilizing child slavery.

      Hasn’t worked yet in legal forums, but there’s definitely a concerted effort to place the blame on the bad actor itself, whether an individual or in this case, the company itself.

      But the protestors identified Chappelle as the bad actor in his case right, so they didn’t want to penalize the entire platform for one bad actor?

      Boycotting all of YouTube instead of protesting the specific offensive YouTuber responsible for his own words doesn’t make sense to me.

      Like Nestle should be held accountable because The company is actively fighting for the retention of child slavery in their cocoa plantations to support their business operations.

      I don’t know what Netflix"s culpability would have been related to Dave Chappelle, a fraction of a fraction of a percent of their content and business model.