Should we just forgive these crimes against humanity on the individual level and blame an ideology instead?
We can do both, though. Hold individuals accountable, and still recognize how they’re enabled and emboldened by the systems they operate in. Focusing on either the individual or the system while disregarding the other when trying to assign blame or find a better solution is not going to help
Well your initial comment very much reads like you’re falling into the same dichotomy except flipped the other way. “We don’t need to change the system as long as we stop the bad people from doing bad things” was the vibe I’m getting from it
We can do both, though. Hold individuals accountable, and still recognize how they’re enabled and emboldened by the systems they operate in. Focusing on either the individual or the system while disregarding the other when trying to assign blame or find a better solution is not going to help
Yes exactly. We can and should do both.
But it seems most people here would prefer the false dichotomy that implies we can only do one.
People want communism to be a panacea and it’s simply not. Until we understand that as a group, we will never see lasting change.
Well your initial comment very much reads like you’re falling into the same dichotomy except flipped the other way. “We don’t need to change the system as long as we stop the bad people from doing bad things” was the vibe I’m getting from it