Because of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, of course (pardon my language). It goes like this: give a normal person an audience and anonymity, and he will very possibly turn into a total fuckwad*. See how easy that is to understand? Why, you don’t need a complicated, ax-grinding ideology to explain this condition. Now, if you’re writing for Slate and have a deadline, you might want to have a complicated, ax-grinding ideology to explain this, but the rest of us understand that if you have to shave, you should shave with Occam’s Razor.
(Via Hot Air Headlines)
Moe Lane
*Not everybody does, of course. But we’re not talking about everybody, either. We’re talking about the fuckwads. Also: note that anonymity in this context includes ‘people who assume that nobody will ever call them out on their intolerance.’ Some of those people use their real names. Some of them, in fact, write for Slate.
The only thing I would object to is the use of “turn into”. They already are, it’s just that in normal discourse, they do a good job of hiding it.
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It wasn’t just those old Pharisees who were “like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.”
hate is shiny and attractive. it lets you get all the anger, disappointment, etc out of your system, for a while anyways. it’s easy. really, it;’s a drug. and slate, vox, msnbc all have big bowls of it sitting around their offices.
There is a case for an ideological explanation. The SJWs are either leftists or the result of mainstreaming toxic leftist methods and self-justifications.
Yes, but… There are a fair number of people who want to speech, or at least speech they disagree with, on the internet. So if one out of a hundred become total fuckwads, the SJWs can point to that one and say “See! This is why we need…” Or Russia, or China, or the Islamists, or whoever.
You can say on the internet everything that would get your teeth punched down your throat if you said that in a bar.
The internet faster
Than alcohol can
Reveals the jackass
Inside each man.
(Burma Shave)
Slow clap.
“….give a normal person an audience and anonymity, and he will very possibly turn into a total fuckwad*”
I know this because I have fallen. I fell a long time ago. And then, after a long time, I discovered it didn’t matter. Why get into an argument on the internet? What good is it? You are correct – alright – and now how do you get acknowledgment of that?
Total waste of time.
Best to make your point – and be polite and civil – and then move on. Those who can be persuaded will be persuaded, those who won’t, won’t.
Move on.
Be Civil.
Don’t chalk up wins.
(Because there is no win.)