Reply #78: As the teabaggers have shown, it's an effective way to shut down [View All]

[Cerridwen]

and/or divert a message or conversation.

"We" allow bullying in the US and some people mistake it for "toughness." Volume equals strength or some such absurdity.

The inverse of that being that anyone who complains about bullying is labeled a whiner or overly sensitive; which of course, are bad things. So bullies get to tell people to "grow a thicker skin," play the victim, then make the sensitive person the bully. Every time I read something like that, I always hear, "How dare you question my right to be an obnoxious piece of garbage. I'm soooooo sorry YOU were offended." Sound familiar?

Watch the teabaggers, rush, hannity, et. al. to see it in action.

I'm not too surprised to see it here. It has become an accepted "fact" of "the internet." Accepted; as in immutable and unchangeable. Of course, all it takes to change the immutable fact of bullying on the internet is...don't allow it. Instead, I see people say, "that's just the way it is" rather than question whether or not it has to be that way. Sad. Really.

I also notice you got a couple of those type replies here; in addition to the picking-nits variety that ignore the whole to zero in on the unstated nits. Nit-wits. Now that term makes sense.

Anyway, my two-cent contribution.