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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
Laffin' out loud if you think I walk around talking like this IRL.
I think the general populace is starting to take the internet far too seriously. If some people on a message board/Facebook/Reddit/etc. are walking around fuming about "regressive leftists" because I told them they are human garbage on the internet because of their bigoted views, they need to settle the #### down and chill and maybe re-asses why people think that.
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I mean, that's awesome that you're not like this IRL. I think most people aren't. But online interactions are a large part of how people engage with the world now. I agree that's a massive problem and plays a central role in the fracturing we've seen in society over the last number of years (if I'm right in understanding that to be what you're saying). But it's also how a lot of people see the cultural trends progressing; the news, for example, reflects the same thing. This same sort of social justice shaming pervades peoples' twitter timelines and youtube videos and the articles they see pop up on their facebook feeds. Turn on the news, and see the same stuff; Oscars protests and college campus demonstrations against... whatever, Black Lives Matter leaders, Emma Watson complaining about the patriarchy and on and on and on.
Meanwhile, Mike the electrician from Harrisburg just wants to go to work, come home and play with his kids, and not be admonished by some latte-sipping, ivy league jackass for his failing to recognize and oppose a white supremacist rape culture. If he wanted to be told he was born sick and commanded to be well, he'd go to Church.