🐲​​Friday ACAB🐉 @dragonmagic@computerfairi.es

Cross Posting this from Cohost

One of the most mangled phrases on this modern internet of ours is the phrase "accountability." It's often weaponized by community internal culture warriors who refuse to acknowledge that growth, development, and change are a thing a person does (or worse, that these things don't matter), that people are frozen in time and solely a product of their mistakes.

This has gotten so bad that this phrase has become a red flag.

The phrase accountability was originally meant to be akin to paying off debts and squaring away accounts. To that end, there is an end state that needs to be respected by all parties. While people aren't fully required to forget their mistakes or trust them again, acting like they "weren't held accountable" is blatantly wrong provided the offense isn't still happening and the agreed terms were met.

The idea that mistakes are permanent and personal growth is irrelevant doesn't serve to hold people accountable, it paradoxically tells them that accountability doesn't matter since even if they do end up doing better or changing as a person that this mistake will permanently haunt them no matter how different of a person they are now. If that's the case, why bother changing at all, and to that matter, what does accountability look like when literally no measures are considered good enough.

If we use the metaphor of "settling accounts and paying off debts" (which is where the phrase accountability comes from) then this is the moral equivalent of loansharking and putting people in a debt trap. They don't want accountability, they want a sense of power and control over people they see as threats, so they use the social equivalent of organized crime tactics to do so.

Title: Imaibashi in Late Autumn (1939)

Artist: Kasamatsu Shiro

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William A. Slaughter, Sunset Upon the Sea

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Title: Mount Fuji from Nagaoka (1962)

Artist: Toshi Yoshida

https://matcha-jp.com/en/12720 #ToshiYoshida #ShinHanga #Art #Autumn #Showa #MtFuji #MountFuji #Japan

Hoar frost on pixie cup from yesterday #lichen #WinterPictures

Little snow. Light snowfall appears. Northern winds have blown the last leaves from the trees. 🌨

Title: Glorious Autumn (1989)

Artist: Masao Ido

#MasaoIdo #ShinHanga #SosakuHanga #Art #Heisei #Autumn #Japan

LGBTQIACAB spotted in Naples, Italy

Title: Forest (1955)

Artist: Kasamatsu Shiro

#KasamatsuShiro #ShinHanga #SosakuHanga #Art #Autumn #Showa #Forest #Japan