And poof! — the whole thing becomes subjective.

Dear Culture,

So, you know I’m a fan of you.  Really and truly; I think we should always be friends.  But lately, we’ve been falling into this pattern.  And it just isn’t working for me.  So I thought maybe we could put it on the table and come up with something better.  Because we’re cool like that.

So here’s the pattern: Somebody — a person, a company, an organization — does something.   They create an advertisement, maybe, or they write a blog.  They tell a joke or they release a product.  Suffice it to say that somebody out there puts something out into the world.  Something that is racist or sexist or sizeist or ableist or otherwise oppressive.  Then, a second somebody — a person, a company, an organization — responds.  Maybe the second somebody spearheads a petition.  Maybe they start an international protest movement.  Maybe they form their own Twitter hashtag and just repeatedly tweet WTF, WTF, WTF until someone starts paying attention.  The point is, there’s this first group that missteps, and this second group that’s all, “social justice, you’re doing it wrong.”  Ok?  With me so far?
 
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