Certainly, many--perhaps, sadly, even most--aren't.
However, some are. Something that struck me was a Twitter exchange (which I unfortunately can't find) in which somebody tweeted the video of one of the depositions, and somebody who was, at the time, on one side of this issue, tweeted back something to the effect of, "Yikes...well I feel bad for backing the wrong horse now."
That's somebody who was interested in the facts, and they are no longer holding the position they used to hold upon learning the facts. To the extent that this is a "political climate" issue, I think one of the issues here is that we have a tendency to lump everybody together into groups with little concern for nuance, and it is disrupting our ability to have a healthy dialogue as a result. So, some of us have a tendency to say that "no one is interested in the facts," but truthfully, some are. I'm simply trying to encourage the kind of dialogue in that Twitter exchange that I cited above for the sake of those out there who do care about the facts, even if they are not the majority.
And I guess what I'm suggesting is that it's worth taking into consideration that...yes, people like that should be regarded as children, not capable of having an adult conversation. Ignoring them can sometimes go a long way, as many of them thrive on attention. When somebody who is morally reprehensible is clamoring for attention, sometimes the most effective solution is to starve them of the attention they crave. Let them whine like babies, and let them see for themselves that no one wants them around if all they're going to do is scream in their little corner of the internet where no one wants to engage with them until they start behaving like an adult.Cursed Lemon wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2019 10:24 amThere is no legitimate excuse for holding an ethically reprehensible position just because some person on Twitter was mean to you. To let that pass is to essentially erase that person's agency and reduce them to little more than a child, furthermore it demonstrates that they are apparently incapable of holding a belief out of inner moral uprightness rather than herd mentality.