Rex Kerr
1 min readJun 12, 2023

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This is what "cancel culture" means. If you can't use language in the agreed-upon way, then it's not possible for us to communicate.

The horrifying callousness with which you regard emotional pain sufficient to cause suicide, the gleefulness with which you assume the worst possible things about the deceased, and the casualness with which you write off the extremely fickle but intensely negative dogpiling mob (which, conveniently, you claim you don't even see) as "consequences" as if there's nothing to be done about it when in fact not doing this is exactly what we're supposed to be talking about, also provides a powerful reason to limit further interactions.

I urge you in the strongest way possible to reconsider your embrace of what you call "consequence culture", wherein people are made to feel as though their lives are worthless--for them, a death sentence, except one that you mock them for--on the basis of an extrajudicial process, and one that if they're callous and hateful enough they can just throw off like it's nothing. As a system of justice, it's utter rubbish: Inconsistently applied, devastates the redeemable, spares the irredeemable, no fact-checking, pathetic follow-up.

This is not at all about wanting people to escape consequences. It's the exact opposite. It's entirely about wanting significant, proportional consequences, accurately applied. But you apparently don't care about that at all.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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