• qarbone@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      We could have just shamed that person, if they showed up. By being the person cutting ahead of this hypothetical 2000s-era middle-schooler, you have become the person other people are attempting to shame.

      There is a line between “preempting” and “perpetuating.”