No Stupid Questions

I feel like this mostly happens online, and relates to "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory"

In addition, the phenomenon of social media has made everyone decide that what they have to say is just as important as a Nobel Prize Winner or president because all of our tweets and posts look the same. Everyone gets a virtual podium. To relatively insignificant people, the notion that they can shout back at a famous person or expert and appear to be on equal footing is too enticing to resist. A great example is someone who never spent a single day in med school trying to tell our nation's health experts that they were wrong about COVID for instance. The number of people with absolutely zero qualifications that thought their argument was worth making was depressing. Most would never do that in public and if they did, would simply be escorted out of the room and forgotten.

It invokes any number of people from all around the spectrum to be an arse.

If you're trying to be neutral or just don't much care for some particular political issue (what's political or not is an interesting question in itself, but nowadays anything is), you see just as much toxicity from all the ends of the spectrum.

I still can't believe all the fights that were ensuing regarding wearing masks. But once something becomes a symbol...

I'd even argue the "left" is faster to call names and dump baseless accusations on anyone quite at random, to be honest.

I mean, just watch the downvotes on this comment from the "if you're not with us, you're a nazi" crowd.

I won't be getting into it more in public. It's just hard for me to leave posts like this alone.

Because literally their only excuse for what they're saying is that the government can't legally stop them from saying it

Because (generally) non-assholes aren't asked to not speak.

There are people who feel like they need to put folks down to feel good about themselves.

These words give them power so of course they don’t want to get it taken away.

Like the rich don’t want for capitalism to go away because money gives them power.

Capitalism has nothing to do with freedom.

They want their guns because it is no longer a tool, it’s a show of dominance.

Bigger the better fuck yea!

Everytime i think about stuff like this i look to how the power dynamic stands out.

Tldr:

I am have let myself be too soft as I have not invoked my freedom of expression and fair conditions and let them bypass responsibility and get away with imposing their way of business.

End tldr

You know reading these comments made me look at my Country's constitution... South Africa

Makes me think that people in general don't fully read them, myself included.

It is interesting because in a way some of the things written here can in practice get someone put in jail because of the stigma of the past - primarily racism

I was raised in the demographic as white but my mother is, and this the term they use here, coloured ( fair complexion) i am sure an internet search can confirm.

Also realised that when my last job told me I wouldn't advance in the work because of the colour of my skin ( and I was too stupid and eager for a job I accepted) they were legally covering their ass as there is provision for it if it is formally accepted. That my rights were ebbed away with fine print ( example, they made me sign something inocculous 3 months into employment and fine out down the line that I missed out on receiving bonus by a month because of the signed document)

But even through all that and the contracts they made me sign i still had the right to strike or to unionized.... of course they make sure that you can't do that because they prey on that need and suppress your right to diginity

Really off topic apologies, brain wonders off and puts pieces into play that fell off the bandwagon😂