Sotuanduso

As opposed to communism, where you can just choose not to work and get everything you need for free?

There's a difference between acknowledging it and feeling like you should let everyone know any time it's brought up.

As a person involved in creative works, I don't think this is healthy in the long run. If a fella was a bigot once, and you denounce them every time they're brought up, that comes off as you saying they shouldn't be allowed to do creative work because they were a bigot once.

On a personal level, I don't really have as much to fear from that because I've never been a hater (though I've certainly said things in the past that can be misconstrued.) But I work with teams. I have a concern that one day, one of my teammates on one of my favorite projects might get exposed for something I had no way of knowing, that might have only occured years before I met them, and then the reputation of that project is going to be forever tainted. That could be hundreds of hours of work and passion down the drain.

It walks and talks like hatred and grudge-holding, which isn't exactly healthy.

Of course the day after reading this, I encounter it for the first time, in my ML class.

I guess it's not hugely common, but it still happens and nobody seems to question it. Like not too long ago with Lovecraft, for example.

I beg your pardon?

Why has it become normal to list a public figure's sins when they're the subject of a meme?

The person who drew that pipe captioned it "This is not a pipe" in French.

For some reason it's a popular piece. I don't really like it because I prefer art to be aesthetically interesting rather than "any creative work that makes a statement."

Ham on a buffet, you say?

This joke actually made me wince.

I'm actually not as neutral as I may seem. There are quite a few cases where I hold more extreme opinions, but as a general trend, I average somewhere around the middle.

I'm not seeing a conflict here. The point I'm making is that the middle ground is not necessarily in the middle of any two given opinions, because the spectrum is wider than that. And also that the middle is not necessarily the best, just worth evaluating.