Re:How the online hate mob set its sights on me
by dennisnedry on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @04:51AM
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Social Media seems like the adult version of high school all over again. You have the bullies and popularity contests. Jon Ronson was one of the unfortunate who tried to tell the crowd that they shouldn't judge, and instead became one of the kids being picked on.
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Re:How the online hate mob set its sights on me
by AndrewKemendo on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @08:40AM
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High school, or middle school is not materially different than the rest of the world.
The idea of "The adult version of high school" for situations that involve bullies, ingroup/outgroup and pettiness etc... is silly because it assumes that those things are only relegated to children.
Case in point: The G20 in Australia[1]. All the cool kids sit with Obama, Putin ate lunch alone and was on the outside of the class photo. If the highest level of political diplomacy is also "the adult version of high school"...well then I guess the whole thing is just high school.
[1]http://www.pbs.org/video/2365401766/ time:50:08
Re:How the online hate mob set its sights on me
by Kristine1975 on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @09:35AM
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Except for Dilma Rousseff, president of Brazil, by the way: http://www.stefan-niggemeier.de/blog/wp-content/g20_2.jpeg
(the picture belongs to an article of a German journalist about misleading pictures in the media: http://www.stefan-niggemeier.de/blog/19865/super-symbolbilde...)
Re:How the online hate mob set its sights on me
by ptaipale on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @07:33AM
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I had nothing of the kind in high school.
Maybe on 7th grade of our system (when we were 13-14).
It looks like that's the mental age of SJW's.
Re:How the online hate mob set its sights on me
by eli on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @07:58AM
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The behavior described is hardly limited to social media users who describe themselves as "SJWs."