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Tabloids keep swinging and missing on Mamdani
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There was a pretty good article (maybe it won a pulitzer? I can't remember now) about how and why social shaming went away as a punishment, framed around that one twitter post about africa that got someone fired while they were in a plane. Europe has the right idea with the 'right to be forgotten.'
Personally, as someone who, like you, has done a near complete 180 on political views from childhood idiocy to teenage mindless acceptance of the community's politics to becoming an actual thinking adult, I can agree about a person's capability to change. I can even easily imagine how easy it would be to change by reflecting (once away from others who were egging it on and socially agreeing pushing it as a good thing) on an experience as a guard in a war 'jail' that had documented horrors happen there.
That article sounds interesting, but I don't know the situation it's referencing. "Right to be forgotten" sounds like a good idea. At least for private citizens. Although social media makes that logistically difficult to implement.
Public officials should have to waive certain expectations of privacy in order to serve, but that should mostly focus on the present and future. Maybe their recent history during elections, but if someone has changed their political views then I don't see the benefit of digging up skeletons from prior decades, especially if they've already disavowed those views.