There’s a weird part of Twitter right now that thinks the “punitive mockery” of Jeffrey Toobing after he was allegedly caught masturbating while on a Zoom call with his work colleagues is out of bounds.
From The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf:
When Occam's Razor suggests someone humiliated himself through a combo of technological error, pandemic circumstances, bad judgment, & bad luck, it seems like we should react w/ empathy, politeness, & forgiveness, as we would want to be treated, rather than punitive mockery
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) October 19, 2020
LOL. The “#MeToobin” movement has begun:
Rejoice Zoom wankers, #MeToobin movement has arrivedhttps://t.co/M875gwBGEr
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 20, 2020
It really is an idiotic tweet:
Rejoice Zoom wankers, #MeToobin movement has arrivedhttps://t.co/M875gwBGEr
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 20, 2020
But do you know who thought “shame” was the perfect punishment for something like this? That’s right. It was Jeffrey Toobin himself who said this:
It really could be “the greatest tweet in history”:
in retrospect, the greatest tweet in historyhttps://t.co/H8Bx6W3NCx
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 20, 2020
And we’ll happily give Toobin the punishment he thinks is appropriated.
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