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Would we condemn a similarly frivolous preoccupation in a male leader?
This is what, in philosophy, we call reflexivity: the standpoint from which we condemn a state of things can be itself part of this state of things.
I had thought we had dispensed with this nonsense, but it would seem that as long as we condemn a video before we condemn a violent reaction to it, we'll always be bestowing power upon those who wish to pass this kind of law.
Similarly, when we condemn a racist policeman, we are not condemning the law enforcement community as a whole; we are condemning the rogue actor, out of an interest in keeping our minorities safe.
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"As a club we condemn all crime including rape and, irrespective of any appeal procedure, it was always the case that we were prepared to withstand the barrage of abuse that is evident within the country and on social media.
"WE must condemn a little more and understand a little less," John Major said in 1993 of Britain's most infamous young offenders, the two ten-year-old boys who killed the toddler James Bulger.
"We condemn all illegal direct actions against our people and operations," Cuadrilla said in a statement.
We condemn all human rights abuses.
We rightly condemn a history of gross racial discrimination in American education, for example, but when we make that the causal explanation of educational differences, we go beyond what the facts will support.
So, we properly condemn a single manifestation of schadenfreude — say, laughing at suffering caused by a natural disaster — even if it, in itself, did nothing to increase anyone's suffering.
He went on to argue that we cannot judge the molesters of the 1950s by today's standards, "just as we don't look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism". .
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