Uh, no, the opposite. I don’t think I have an obligation to do that.

To take a recent example, I can not interpret the paintings by former US president GWB without thinking about war crimes. I can’t even make a determination about whether they have artistic merit.

If I were a student of art history, I would be expected to develop the critical skill to be able to separate that, just like a literary critic needs to be able to, or someone getting training in the history of science needs to be able to read shit by unbelievably racist and sexist men and evaluate it dispassionately.

This is an important skill for people in their professional lives and people do need to develop it.

But in our personal lives, we have no such obligation, and in most cases when it’s brought up outside very specific situations, it’s an excuse to patronize a horrible person.

I don’t think I have any moral obligation whatever to try to separate the art from the artist, I’m not in a PhD seminar.

Came here to say this, or “cap”

Jensen in particular has some serious craniorectal impaction asking with autofecal anosmia.

Tech people are all circle jerking dipshits

Bouá

Embalming our dead loved ones and burying them in a sealed box.

Seeing my grandmother’s stinking of preservative with visible stitching holding her mouth shut did not bring me peace or closure.

Compost my dead body, I promise you I will not miss it.

This is the thing as a former white man.

Authority to touch others flows down the privilege hierarchy.

Trans women are always judged as the aggressor, always. Our bodies are considered public property.

Nah that’s not credible any more.

All those people lined right up behind Trump as soon as they got the chance.

And nothing of value was lost

I mentioned this story to my friend: “it only took six weeks of using Gemini to decide to kill himself wtf”

He immediately replied “I have to use Gemini at work and I get where he was coming from”

Lol Bill Gates is worrying about what Russian girl he’s going to rape next, he doesn’t give a shit about Microsoft.

Seriously, ain’t nobody torrenting terabytes of porn at work without approval.

If that’s actually a picture of Yue, I have bunions older than her. How is someone with that little experience in charge of this shit?

Can someone start prosecuting these guys?

Mobile data.

I use Tutanota with a private domain, but you can get a free address with them also.

Also famously had a private island…

This dude needs to stop getting high for, like, twenty minutes.

The second requirement you describe (activated solidarity) is coming together as we speak in Minneapolis.