What was that about scope insensitivity again?

[maradydd]

I've seen some criticism that the punchline of this:

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[selenite]

Watching a Two Minute Hate spring up is scary.

[whswhs]

What struck me about this was that just a few months ago, the news about Rotherham came out, and the American papers (with few exceptions) and the feminist blogosphere greeting the situation of 1400 underage girls being targeted for repeated rape and the police and the child welfare services keeping it quiet with . . . silence. (At least, I just did a search on "Rotherham scandal feminist commentary" and everything on Google's first page was people criticizing feminists for not speaking up.) And now, one man is photographed with a shirt bearing the kind of art that I see every year at Comic-Con, and no suggestion that he ever did actual physical or emotional harm to even one woman, and there's an Internet firestorm. The implied priorities are disturbing.

[maradydd]

Every time I start to think about the implied priorities, it's like my brain segfaults or something. I try really hard to understand where people are coming from, but I cannot piece together what sort of principles would lead someone to consider any article of clothing to be worse than multiple police departments covering up rape.

[whswhs]

I can think of several hypotheses, but most of them have very ugly implications

[doissetep]

Perhaps because it is easier to throw a tomato than to light a candle.