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[–]Wanderingthehalls 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I fucking despair for humanity. I didn't think so many people were so very, very stupid while thinking they are so clever that they are happy to actively promote their stupidity online. This morning I saw a twitter post from someone who walked past the school in Dublin where a week ago three children and a care worker were stabbed, and he complained that there were a pair of drunks/drug addicts sitting on the entrance steps that the children had to walk around. Straight away some fucking white knight jumped up to berate him for his prejudices against the poor victims of addiction. The original poster was clearly making a point about the lack of care being shown by the gardai to the children and staff of a school that had just gone through a very real trauma. The state should be doing everything they can to help those kids feel safe but they are being ignored. And this stupid shit jumps up to call the person pointing this out a bigot.

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, the problem is more we're in the endgame of "politics as sports team". Humanity spent millennia under the viewpoint "people are willing to come around if you show them they're right", and all it took was about 15 years of social media to change that to "you don't get it, do you? We'd RATHER BE WRONG than admit you're right, because if we admit you're right then that means you WIN!"