You might want to add who Scott Adams is in your OP.

No, I don’t agree with his response. Groups and individuals are two different things. Groups require membership and membership requires acceptance - both ways.

If an individual joins a group, he accepts being jointly responsible for the actions and values of the group - as long as he is a member. If he rejects the values, he has to reject the group.

The same holds true for the group. If it allows individuals into the group, it assumes a responsibility to police the individual members of the group in accordance with the values of the group. If it allows bad actors to continue to represent the group, then yes the group becomes “bad”.

It is an association thing. Membership is a group requires adherence to the values of the group.

So he does not have a “linguistic kill shot”.

The onus to “stop it” is on the group first. And if they don’t, to reject, denounce, disassociate and isolate.

If they do it in the group’s name and the group does not act, then the group did it.

And fair has nothing to do with anything.

That is part of the group dynamic.

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