All the people who say Twitter is worse than real life because in real life people are so much nicer: That's just called social awkwardness It's scary and painful to be hostile to someone face to face It has nothing to do with being more right about things when you're offline
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Like, I don't think I'm unusual here, I have a natural desire to be liked by whoever I'm interacting with right now It's stressful not to do that, to walk right into hostility and keep it burning hot The natural human instinct is to moderate, to reconcile, find common ground
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I don't think I'm unique in that -- in fact I think this instinct is substantially weaker in me than normal, hence me being an asshole But it feels like shit every time I go through with it It's weakness, that's all, not humanity or decency or whatever
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I *still* feel like shit and ruminate about times I shook hands with someone whom I knew made a habit of hurting people "You got an email from this TERF shithead who calls your friends 'psychotic t****ies' and you sent back a cordial reply to be NICE?" Reminds me of childhood
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So when they go "Why do you have these convos in public with RTed reply chains so all your followers can be your audience cheering and egging you on Are you too scared to have an honest open dialogue in semi-private" Yeah actually I am
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I have no desire to be privately berated and abused and belittled OR to be sweet talked and charmed and lovebombed I've been around long enough to know how this shit works Getting someone alone increases the potency of emotional manipulation, it doesn't decrease it
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Union busters always try to quell the shouting and the marching and the picketing and ask for a leader to speak to, so they can get them in the office with a cigar and a glass of scotch and wear them down Oldest trick in the book
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Whenever some kind of protest goes on long enough there's ALWAYS some kind of peace summit where some famous person gets invited to have lunch with the bad guys and comes out going "Okay they were actually really nice, let's stop the negativity" Even though nothing changed
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"I'm the president of a gay rights org and I had lunch with the CEO of Chick Fil A" Good for you, put it on your Instagram, who the hell cares
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JK Rowling is almost certainly gearing up extend an invitation to her castle to some trans millennial YouTuber right before Fantastic Beasts 3 premieres Bookmark this tweet and don't fucking fall for it
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But I really hate the cloying liberal takes that all our problems would be solved if we could appoint a bunch of figurehead leaders to gather over a beer and hash things out and become friends Fuck off
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It'd be a great way for a few privileged famous people to cadge free beers It wouldn't solve any problems It'd be a really effective way to make sure problems continue Buying one person lunch costs the powerful much less than giving a class of people their rights
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I'm nobody and my opinion in and of itself does not matter If I'm yelling at someone and "canceling" them it's because of what they did to harm a group of people If you have an apology or restitution to make, you can share it with the whole class or keep it to yourself
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