I am a pessimist who works from the assumption that humans are globally a bit terrible. Thus, I don’t consider the isolated data point of “humans in group x have been caught being terrible” to be particularly novel or useful.
Reporting that I would find useful would ultimately take the form “humans in group x trend toward differently terrible from humans in other groups”, whether that’s claiming that they’re worse, differently bad, or better.
Whenever someone claims that a given group is better than most of society, the obvious next question is “better at being excellent to each other, or better at covering it up when they aren’t?”.
The isolated data point of “people in power are accused of using that power to harm others” is like… yes, and? That’s kind of baseline for our species.
And as a potential victim, reporting on misconduct is only useful to me if it updates the way I take precautions against it, by pointing out that the misconduct in a given community is notably different from that in the world at large.
I am a pessimist who works from the assumption that humans are globally a bit terrible. Thus, I don’t consider the isolated data point of “humans in group x have been caught being terrible” to be particularly novel or useful.
Reporting that I would find useful would ultimately take the form “humans in group x trend toward differently terrible from humans in other groups”, whether that’s claiming that they’re worse, differently bad, or better.
Whenever someone claims that a given group is better than most of society, the obvious next question is “better at being excellent to each other, or better at covering it up when they aren’t?”.
The isolated data point of “people in power are accused of using that power to harm others” is like… yes, and? That’s kind of baseline for our species.
And as a potential victim, reporting on misconduct is only useful to me if it updates the way I take precautions against it, by pointing out that the misconduct in a given community is notably different from that in the world at large.