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Moral responsibility / culpability for present and historical injustices, necessarily has to have reasonable limits in order to be applied in any useful way. One could say, for example, “I am complicit in the deaths of three dozen workers who died in a factory in Bangladesh which collapsed while they were making fake branded shirts…

It is a strange psychological phenomenon in the US these days, and it manifests in so many areas, where the worst, most offensive thing you can ever tell someone is, “things are not really that bad”. Optimism, good will, benefit of the doubt, positive thinking, are all treated as horribly insidious forms of gaslighting. People…