A reminder that if you give a thumbs up or similarly positive reaction to a racist comment you may also receive a ban along with the user that wrote the post.
Try not to Hate Read--good tip for some posters on here
The internet allows every person to access precisely the opinions that most please or enrage them – being enraged is a particular form of being pleased, actually. Finding things on the internet to “hate read” is a way of feeling great about yourself, because you’re not as stupid and wrong as those other people. The internet allows and encourages us to either find opinions that we wildly, enthusiastically agree with or conversely the most ridiculous and objectionable and stupid forms of the views on the other side of any issue.
In every information crisis, there is a tendency to cut ourselves off and look not at the community around us but at the particular information that makes us feel comfortable and right. What we lose via giving in to that tendency is shared reality. That is, a reality we all consent to. Once you’ve lost that, it’s easy to dehumanise others, to start to believe that people who disagree with you aren’t really people at all.
www.theguardian.com
terrific talent.
