Re:How the online hate mob set its sights on me
by bertil on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @05:34PM
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Trekkies? Many, but not one that would call you a rapist for disagreeing with them, i.e. none that think that is it appropriate and fair to you put you in jail, where you’d get beat and raped on a daily basis for a decade, with no possible recourse, for suggesting that their point of view might be partial. Did I mention suicide rates?
I know: That got very real very fast, didn’t it? De-humanising your dissenters can have such strangely overwhelming consequences. I mean, just look at every conversation the original article quotes: death-threats are hardly the worst. That’s why when someone claims (proudly) to have invented the key-word for empowering something like that, I pay attention. I couldn’t find the reference where she did, though.
I know: That got very real very fast, didn’t it? De-humanising your dissenters can have such strangely overwhelming consequences. I mean, just look at every conversation the original article quotes: death-threats are hardly the worst. That’s why when someone claims (proudly) to have invented the key-word for empowering something like that, I pay attention. I couldn’t find the reference where she did, though.