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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
I never read the article, so apologies if I am off point.
If I'm EldrickOnIce, and post something inappropriate on Calgary Puck, who cares - I'm just another Internet ahole who can be warned, suspended or banned to protect the site's public image.
If I'm Bingo, it's entirely different.
I can be an ahole, he can't.
It's my opinion that people who are a public face of something, and aren't smart enough to understand what is and is not appropriate to broadcast, probably should not be in that position anyway.
Harsh but true.
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That's kind of dodging the question, isn't it?
I mean, do
you think it's okay to publicly shame someone over minor mistakes, even if it might mean they end up traumatized, unemployed and alone? Do you participate in it? Do you notice it? If you do, do you ever just say something simple like "isn't that kind of harsh?"
(Personally I've started to confront a few of my friends about this kind of behavior and asked them to think about it. As I said, the topic has started to bother me. I also noticed that a few people on my regular feeds constantly posted links telling me who I should hate today.)
In my opinion this is whole phenomenon is pretty much just internet bullying. It's the old schoolyard mentality, where somebody who makes a good target slips up in some usually very minor way, and then things just escalate.
Besides, the joke she made wasn't actually that stupid IMO.
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“Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”
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“Living in America puts us in a bit of a bubble when it comes to what is going on in the third world. I was making fun of that bubble.”
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I actually thought it was kind of funny.