….why would I hang my hat up for the winter? It's cold; that's when I need my hat.

There are WAY more people who conveniently accuse others of using PC-ness to justify being shitty than there are people who actually do that.

gaaahh then why did you bring up the "heteronomous morality" thing??

I mean, if they worry about it, they can see if they agree with the criticisms and change the show because of them. Or they can decide they disagree and ignore the criticisms. Either one pretty much seems reasonable?

THEN WHY DID YOU BRING IT UP

….if they all get their viewpoints from different sets of three people, how can you draw generalizable conclusions about them?

Oh, ok yeah, let's do it, everybody

Part of my issue is that they characterize people as being uncompassionate and unempathetic specifically as a way of saying why liberals are bad for telling people not to do things. It's not the narrative, it's the subtext.

I don't know why you're interpreting it that way… the "something I don't like" always IS racist/sexist/transphobic/etc. And calls to "shut it down" are pretty meaningless from people without the power to do that. I know there's a lot of SWJ Porn out there where people grab onto isolated, unrepresentative examples of…

"I just think the people who identify as "liberals on the internet" are fucking annoying reactionaries who make decisions on what to support based on the three people they've decided to derive all of their "correct" opinions from."

It can be, if you think what they believe is cruel.

And one of those three people is someone nobody cares about from 2013.

I mean, if every political opinion boils down to the value "compassion," because that's what you prioritize most morally, then yes it does.

You mean the stupid thing that one person did years ago, had no effect on anything, and people still bring up because it's one of the few things that passes for evidence that liberals on the internet are terrible and powerful, even though that doesn't hold up if you think about it?

You're not being willing to look at things from other points of view.

Masses of people on the left aren't going to yell at you unless they think you're supporting racism or some other form of attack on a marginalized group… transphobia, xenophobia, etc. I do think most of SP's takes on those issues are at the very least defensible, but that makes it harder to see why they'd worry about…

Are you seriously trying to say that talking a lot about global warming has nothing to do with why they dislike Gore?

No, but your post about bingo cards just let me win my Lazy Joke bingo card.

But just they can ignore it? I mean, I'm not talking death threats or anything like that, but people on Twitter calling you racist seems like a pretty fair thing to deal with if you say something that people legitimately think is racist, and it's pretty easy to filter out, anyway.

Not when the fucking animated comedy is bullshit.