@mrbojangles25 said:
Yeah I agree, I just think it's important to point out the outrage to the outrage as well. It tends to be a cascading reaction, no one side is really blameless.
I think people just refuse to see the middle ground, or any sense of idealized indifference, or apathy, or whatever you want to call simply accepting things that are. Yeah JK Rowling said some horrible stuff, but that's not what Harry Potter was about. Likewise, people idolize the Beatles, but John Lennon might be one of the worst humans to have ever been involved in making music.
Never meet your heroes; and in this day, that means never listen to their Twitter, either.
Yeah man, I can see your point.
I don't like extremists on either side: I hate the people attacking Hogwarts devs over something JK Rowling said, but I also hate the extremists from the other side: those attacking others online because they disagree.
When we interact with people in our daily lives we have a certain etiquette, we have social boundaries and rules.
All of that seems to get pushed to the sides online. Heck, I've seen entirely new lows during COVID, where people made new businesses out of dicking around other people.
Can't agree more with your last sentence. And as our interactions will start to become more and more virtual and more and more through the internet, we really have to find ways to be nice to other people, and stop being extremists in our thoughts and actions.
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