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Update: I just realized people keep mixing up 'accountability' and 'punishment' in these debates.
A professor in a lecture I watched said accountability is about making things right, but most call-outs just want someone to lose their job. Anyone else see this happen with a specific cancellation?
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jennys721mo ago
Yeah, that "making things right" idea is a nice thought. But online, it's like watching people bring a fire hose to a candle. They don't want the mess cleaned up, they just want the whole house flooded so they can post about the water damage.
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park.abby25d ago
Yo, I actually think there's another layer here nobody's talking about. The people bringing the fire hose aren't always trying to be mean. Sometimes they genuinely think they're helping by making the situation way bigger so it can't be ignored. Like they see a small mistake and their brain goes "if I blow this up, the internet will force it to get fixed." But that never works the way they think it will. It just turns into a circus where the actual problem gets lost in all the drama and callout posts. So yeah, they want to fix it but they're using the wrong tool and making everything worse in the process.
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