Twitter - and pretty much all social media platforms - have become de facto "road rage" avenues with most able to practice their rage vomiting in anonymity - or simply from behind the keyboard and thus physically distant. "The mob" coaxes, or bullies, the ugly out. Anonymity gives them courage.
When woke society went down the rabbit hole of "words are violence" coupled with "silence is violence", we were screwed. Using those two phrases at the same time gives the "good not-Nazis" an excuse to wage verbal - and physical - violence upon anybody they decide to target. If you say something, you get attacked. If you say nothing, you get attacked. It's always okay to punch a Nazi - and we decide who the Nazis are. Disagreement with us - is violence! *punch, punch*
Thank you. I love your honesty. I applaud you setting the boundaries between where you could have done things differently and where you absolutely refuse to compromise your integrity.
From my experience, unless you have children immersed in this ideology driven by peers and school, people do not understand how embedded this is in our society. You just have to go to a middle school or high school event and count the kids that are categorizing themselves as LGBTQ. It was shocking to me when I saw the first trans kids show up in my kids’ school and I am more in shock how this number is increasing.
As you describe. This is not a Twitter phenomenon. Twitter may amplify it. Twitter may show trends earlier. But these trends are everywhere. Ohio, Michigan, Vermont.
People do bad things without hesitation if this increases their social status or recognition. Our social currency is so obvious right now: anything needs to fit the DEI narrative. In my circle, the people with the most money are the most dominant in this behavior. In both real life and on Twitter. You can see the ones that push their kids to the forefront, making them little pawns in their parent’s search for narcissistic validation supply.
Twitter - and pretty much all social media platforms - have become de facto "road rage" avenues with most able to practice their rage vomiting in anonymity - or simply from behind the keyboard and thus physically distant. "The mob" coaxes, or bullies, the ugly out. Anonymity gives them courage.
When woke society went down the rabbit hole of "words are violence" coupled with "silence is violence", we were screwed. Using those two phrases at the same time gives the "good not-Nazis" an excuse to wage verbal - and physical - violence upon anybody they decide to target. If you say something, you get attacked. If you say nothing, you get attacked. It's always okay to punch a Nazi - and we decide who the Nazis are. Disagreement with us - is violence! *punch, punch*
Every word of this. Every. Word.
Thank you. I love your honesty. I applaud you setting the boundaries between where you could have done things differently and where you absolutely refuse to compromise your integrity.
From my experience, unless you have children immersed in this ideology driven by peers and school, people do not understand how embedded this is in our society. You just have to go to a middle school or high school event and count the kids that are categorizing themselves as LGBTQ. It was shocking to me when I saw the first trans kids show up in my kids’ school and I am more in shock how this number is increasing.
As you describe. This is not a Twitter phenomenon. Twitter may amplify it. Twitter may show trends earlier. But these trends are everywhere. Ohio, Michigan, Vermont.
People do bad things without hesitation if this increases their social status or recognition. Our social currency is so obvious right now: anything needs to fit the DEI narrative. In my circle, the people with the most money are the most dominant in this behavior. In both real life and on Twitter. You can see the ones that push their kids to the forefront, making them little pawns in their parent’s search for narcissistic validation supply.