If you tone police and drive away people trying to create a better environment more than you criticize and drive away people causing material harm, you might as well be advocating for material harm

I'm so tired of seeing this pattern over and over again. I see this on the Fediverse, in friend groups, in communities, in small organizations, and in large workplaces.

A system is what it does. If your system tolerates bad people, it doesn't matter that you intended harsher punishments or criticism of the bad people than of the people who didn't want to tolerate the bad people.

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