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In reply to the discussion: Guess what? [View all]joshcryer
(62,270 posts)We judge character on a daily, if not hourly basis. People don't like to have bad attitudes levied at them or to exist around them. Some people live on bad attitudes and bad behaviors, but they are a minority.
If everyone was a hater of literally any single issue and made it known in public, the world would burn. People walking up to random strangers in the store and telling them that they don't like the shirt they're wearing, stupid stuff like that. I use this example because when I was a kid we were poor and got clothes from the food bank which consisted of a lot of Christan labeled clothing, and an openly rabid atheist walked up to me as I sat waiting for my mom at the DMV and told me I was an idiot, straight up told a 10 year old kid this. Guess how many times, in the close to 30 years after that incident, someone insulted my clothing choices? I literally cannot remember a time. That's how rare that kind of thing is in real life.
The internet has created an environment where people can be nasty without repercussions. Guess how many times I've been called Third Way, right winger, fascist, neocon, NATO lover, warmonger here. Literally every other goddamn week. (And the worse part is I sometimes lose it and do the same to others, much to my dismay after the fact.)
So yes, I think it's instructive and it's not "unreasonable." Especially in sheshe2's case, who has defended our President from the same sort of smears for years. Why the hell not just be fed up with it?