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Re:Kindness is Underrated (2014) by ryanSrich on Sunday July 16, 2017 @12:45PM (#14782796)
Because by today's standards that's not kindness. Being thoughtful, articulate, but well stated and polite is not considered kind, but "mean".

Any attempt to understand, evaluate or otherwise politely disagree is met by a mob of twitter accounts ready to call you a critical asshole and troll at every turn. I'm not sure why the industry has shifted this way. My only guess is it's generational.

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Re:Kindness is Underrated (2014) by BenchRouter on Sunday July 16, 2017 @12:50PM (#14782837)
> Being thoughtful, articulate, but well stated and polite is not considered kind, but "mean".

According to who? Certainly not the article: It puts forward Allen's comment as an example of being kind.

> Any attempt to understand, evaluate or otherwise politely disagree is met by a mob of twitter accounts ready to call you a critical asshole and troll at every turn

You could easily change your statement to "any attempt to do anything is met by a mob of twitter accounts ready to call you an asshole" and it would be just as true.

I don't think twitter outrage is a good metric for anything, because it's extremely contradictory, arbitrary, and capricious.

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