Lots of people (myself included) have just turned off mentions from people you don’t follow/don’t follow you because social media is unusuable or intolerable otherwise. But it’s worrying that you get less abuse if you don’t reply, or call attention to the abuse when it occurs.
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Worrying because it means you attract less bigotry if you ignore rather than confront hate speech, which is a genuine silencing of individuals. So people who can cope with reading sexist, racist, homophobic attacks are left with the task of battling it, and become bigger targets.
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Conflating criticism with hate speech and abuse does no one any favours & the whole tedious argument about “cancel culture” ignores this replicating problem on social media, which affects everyone, not just journalists. People who fight back against abuse are just subject to more
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Professional contrarians who make deliberately inflammatory remarks to court abuse for media slots are doing an injustice to people who are genuinely silenced, knowing that responding to abuse will cause grim individuals to amp up the hate speech. It’s depressing as hell.
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It's the new grift, Dawn. I have a digital bin custom built for their inane slurry.
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