There are a lot of dudes in online media who RT things so their followers do the dirty work of attacking someone.http://qz.com/613574/beware-of-the-angry-white-male-public-intellectual/ …
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Replying to @anildash
Not being holier than thou; it took me a few years to learn I should never hate-RT something. It activates a mob you often can't rein in.
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It's probably been half a decade since I RTed someone in hope of getting my followers to pile on; Especially bad because it feels righteous.
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Replying to @anildash
But these days? We know better. We know any mob we incite online will have egregious bad actors. No excuse for disclaiming responsibility.
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One predictable patten of bad behavior online is once a crowd decides a person is bad, it becomes a contest of who can be most scathing.
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Downside of this pattern is the guy who incited the attacks can't address the worst without taking responsibility for it all. So he doesn't.
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It's bad enough that I hesitate to point out the guys who do this, because I don't want to be targeted again. It's stressful, at a minimum.
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And for women/PoC/LGBT/other marginalized folks, being targeted quickly escalates to real harm: credible threats, lives/jobs disrupted.
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But these guys get away with it because it often drives page views & notoriety for their publications or employers. It's monetized.
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