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Justice for Longstreet (reddthat.com)
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[–] 63 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I embrace the sentiment. If people cannot change and are chastised for their past, there is no incentive to apologize or reform.

We need to be able to allow people a path toward redemption.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    I agree, with the caveat that when the person is still living we need to distinguish between people who have had a genuine change of heart and people who are just publically adopting a popular position for social reasons.

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  • [+] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    The alt-right especially have the strong tendency to back down when confronted, then continue using dog-whistles and other less-provably-problematic things, which helps them build up support while keeping their fellows around them, until they break out and start calling for racial purity again, but this time with a bunch more people blindly following them.

    It's a festering cancer that needs to be excised, not given new places to which to metastasise.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    And how do we know for sure? Point at them a lot? Yell, "REMEMBER WHEN YOU DID THAT THING? ARE YOU STILL SORRY?"

    There comes a point where we have to trust them to show their bad self again, but also allow them to be their reformed self. So, sure, be aware - but if you bring it up or hold it against them, are you really allowing them to move on?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I bet you would not say that if the person did something bad to you.

    I strongly believe there are tiers of people in society based on this, and that they are permanent.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    You're incorrect. I have a number of people in my life who "did something bad" to me whom I've forgiven after the right things were said and right actions were taken. I have also done "something bad" to others and made an earnest apology. Don't presuppose who I am because it doesn't fit your own narrative.

    We need to be more forgiving. That's not a blanket statement - it requires proper apology and actions from the person who "did something bad."

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