No, you cannot comment on the matter.
If you comment on the matter your statement will be dissected as if it were the Zapruder tape. Every curve, every serif, of every letter of every word’s archaic and principle meaning in every edition of the OED will serve as proof of your racism, elitism, unearned privilege, and fragility. This will testify to your infinite, empirical, and ineffable failings as a moral being.
Self-appointed justice, blind to its own brands of privilege, will rally the Twitter — call it what you will. What you will call it will also come under the microscope of fury because, whatever you call it, it will deny that it is being used as a weapon by people who have themselves railed against its use as a weapon.
You cannot sit and discuss, explain, clarify in an exchange the finer points of meaning or misinterpretations and miscommunications. All sides, then, would have to admit missteps. No one makes missteps. People fail utterly as moral human beings, and those people are other people, who must apologize.
That apology is also, in every curve, every serif, of every letter of every word’s archaic and principle meaning in every edition of the OED proof of the other person’s racist, elitist, unearned privileged, fragile, moral turpitude.
The only acceptable apology is one that apologizes for mistakes that were made by other people who will be punished swiftly and mercilessly, as proof of the Righteousness of the apologetic who would never suffer such punishment for their role, of which they had none, in spite of their apology for the mistakes that were made or their role in the systemic problems that they promise to fix just as soon as they get the report from the committee they will form to study the need for the committee.
Only learn from other people’s mistakes, if mistakes were made. Because no one makes mistakes, or missteps, or misunderstandings, or does any of the things about which “we can do better.” No one has to learn from their own actions, or own any actions to learn from. Only other people.
So, no, you won’t make a comment because there is no room for comment. There is only a side to pick because, if you don’t, you will be thrust onto the other.
