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[meta] Please ban comics by bigoted artists
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No, it is not "completely fine" but it is not morally equivalent to committing the rape, and there are justified reasons for doing nothing: e.g. you cannot physically intervene, and are scared of the cops and so unwilling to call them.
I was never saying that it's completely the same, I was saying that it is supporting an aggressor to let them attack others without reacting. And yes, there are justified reasons, none of which is "I don't care"
So, if it's not "completely the same", it would be fair enough to say that "support is support" and "not caring is not caring", right?
Which specific reasons are justified is a separate topic, and depends on the specific action being considered.
No it wouldn't because everything is not black and white. Support has different shapes, it's not all about carrying a sign that says "I support ". Inaction is a form of support, that is not the same as actually doing the thing. Not caring is a form of support when it's about an asymmetrical interaction, where a side is advantaged above the other, because "not caring" means that you are fine with the expected outcome of the dominant side winning. When this side is bigotry, you are fine with bigotry, which makes you a bigot (because to not be a bigot, you need to see bigotry as a problem). If you don't care about a rapist trying to rape someone, then you are fine with the conclusion of the victim being raped, which means that you support rape.
The only time where not caring means being neutral, is when the outcomes are completely and equally random. You can not care about flipping a coin if it's just 50/50. But that's not the case when it comes to things like discrimination, where it's clearly established that people discriminating are advantaged over people being discriminated against. If you don't care, then you're fine with discrimination, and you are supporting it. Even if you're not screaming that minorities should die.