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Be careful what you wish for.

In a fair amount of cases this opinion will be biased, wrong, based on the wrong assumption or just outright intentionally misleading. But it will still agitate the crowd, because everyone just loooves good witch hunt, causing a bunch of unjustified grief to those targeted.

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I agree. But I believe it’s still better to have all witches revealed and let people decide, rather than hiding everything because of fear.

Your belief will change very quickly once you are on the receiving end of one of these hunts.

As an owner of somewhat popular youtube channel and small bootcamp school I’ve been, many times.

This is why I am confident about my point — in my experience all unjustified hate has no power and vanishes quickly, while reasonable critique helps to get better.

It simply requires more self-reliant men and women to be bold with the truth as opposed to rationalizing some future comfortable well-being which is being jeopardized. If anything, being outwardly self-righteous filters out those who have secrets to hide.-Joseph Ariel Hazani

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