#1. Agreed, but this reads as just a sop to reasonableness given what follows…
#2. The conversation is not about whether all people ought to agree with what was said in that thread – you are free to distance yourself from the things said there – rather, the conversation is about whether police should bother with liked tweets. It could be the most bigoted shit in the world – “Hitler should have killed more jews” sort of thing – and it should still not be on the police workload to lecture someone for liking that shit.
And it doesn’t actually have to be part of anyone’s workload to monitor all of Twitter for “rather bigoted things,” or even to monitor one person on Twitter in order to express high-minded reservations about “rather bigoted things.”
#1. Agreed, but this reads as just a sop to reasonableness given what follows…
#2. The conversation is not about whether all people ought to agree with what was said in that thread – you are free to distance yourself from the things said there – rather, the conversation is about whether police should bother with liked tweets. It could be the most bigoted shit in the world – “Hitler should have killed more jews” sort of thing – and it should still not be on the police workload to lecture someone for liking that shit.
And it doesn’t actually have to be part of anyone’s workload to monitor all of Twitter for “rather bigoted things,” or even to monitor one person on Twitter in order to express high-minded reservations about “rather bigoted things.”
I’m suspicious of moral arbiters who are smugly certain about what “good people” ought to do.