I wonder how much of the ostensible trend of rape victims getting death threats on social media is from neuroticism. Isn’t a person who misreads bad sex as rape also likely to misread shitposting as an imminent threat of bodily harm?
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(Note: this tweet is literally invisible to uncharitable readers) Of course, I’m sure some people a) are legitimate victims, and b) suffer harassment when they come forward. And I don’t deny that the subjective experience of Mean People Online is surely worse for the neurotic.
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The internet does not need to be full of people who are vastly more evil for it to lead to some people experiencing vastly more death threats. One is more than most people get IRL!
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