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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I think what happened to you is that everyone already didn’t like you, for whatever reason. People who are liked and respected don’t get “canceled” for one mistake or ill-considered comment. If these were your colleagues, there was already a problem. [/quote]

But people often don’t like someone for reasons that are not that person’s fault. What if someone has a mental illness that made them a bummer to be around? If someone started a nasty untrue rumor about that person, people might be eager to believe it because it gives them a “good” reason to dislike someone.

People are not always justified in their distaste for other people. Being unpopular is not actually evidence that you are a bad person.[/quote]

I don’t have to justify my dislike for anyone.[/quote]

Good for you. Many people do. Most people are not very independent thinkers and are looking for validation and justification all the time. That’s why starting a little mob is so easy— people like being told what to think, and they like having their worst instincts channeled toward what they’ve been told us a “just cause” even if it’s just attacking someone for something they didn’t do.[/quote]

Except OP said something racist.[/quote]

No, I did not. Not even a little racist, not a racist joke. Not racist at all. There is no way to view what I said as racist unless you lie about the words that were said around the comment and invent a context that was not in place when I said it.[/quote]

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