What Oliver is talking about is totally different from the discussion in this thread, which is social justice warriors, rather than online harassment generally.
Incidentally, Oliver's apparently getting quite a bit of sh** for using Anita Sarkeesian in that vid (I don't care, but it was probably dumb to use someone with her baggage to make your point). Also for implying that this is somehow only something women have to deal with and white guys are not targets, which is a fair criticism, though women clearly face a different kind of online abuse that is arguably worse. Still, you don't need to trivialize the harassment faced by people irrespective of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc etc etc on the internet.
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