| o_O.Q said: i hate to be that guy that defends people like candace owens(personally i think she's just an attention seeker and she's banking off of how polarised people are becoming) but i'm concerned with how people are completely willing to jump to conclusions about others so hastily... that is a massive problem and it is going to bite a lot of the people championing it in the ass if it goes too far the presumption of innocence and giving the benefit of doubt are things for a reason and we are throwing them away carelessly |
That's all well and good, but it's something that people with these beliefs take for granted as well. Not everyone will shout from the rooftops that they're a bigot, sometimes they like to be more coded with it and that doesn't mean it's any less problematic.
This is an imperfect analogy, but it's similar to the comparison of racism in the 1930's and now. Used to be that racism was a lot more blatant and easy to spot. Looking now, we have made gigantic strides and it's obvious that things are better, but racism still exists in many fields. It's seen when people get less call backs if they have a black sounding name, or in how the justice system interacts with black vs. white people for drug crimes. These things are not obvious "well the police are all card carrying KKK members" but they are still problems that should be addressed.
In a similar way, it's all well and good to presume innocent until proven guilty, but very few people are going to be an obvious 1930's bigot. Now we're dealing with a more sophisticated problem that takes deeper inspection than "well she didn't say to kill all *insert crazy racist slur for brown people here*" so she probably doesn't have any problematic views towards muslims.
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