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The Current Danger of Hateful Rhetoric and Domestic Terrorism

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07-14-2023, 09:34 AM

(07-14-2023, 09:12 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:
(07-14-2023, 09:05 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: As I’ve said before, technology is why we’re so divided now . The physical safety of social media means people no longer have to encounter the people they attack. There was a time not long ago when a person called someone a pedophile or a Nazi, they were subject to an [BLEEP] whoopin’. Now everyone can sit in the comfort of their home, or anywhere, and say the most vile things about others with no proof of their assertions or risk to their safety.

We now live in the age of cowardice and unaccountability.

I agree with all that, but it's also the splintering of the news media into so many pieces that people can choose whatever worldview suits them.  Then that's what they absorb and they have no understanding of what other people are seeing who have a different worldview.

Yes, this as well. Journalism is becoming a vanishing art. 

I sometimes wonder if a small scale uprising (for lack of a better term) needs to occur to remind people just how fragile our society really is and the value of empathy and magnanimity.
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homebiscuit - by homebiscuit - 07-14-2023, 09:34 AM
RE: homebiscuit - by Caldrac - 07-14-2023, 09:40 AM
homebiscuit - by homebiscuit - 07-14-2023, 10:10 AM
RE: homebiscuit - by Caldrac - 07-14-2023, 10:23 AM
homebiscuit - by homebiscuit - 07-16-2023, 07:59 AM
RE: homebiscuit - by The Real Marty - 07-16-2023, 09:43 AM
RE: homebiscuit - by homebiscuit - 07-16-2023, 09:57 AM
RE: homebiscuit - by NYC4jags - 07-16-2023, 04:16 PM
homebiscuit - by homebiscuit - 07-18-2023, 09:32 AM
RE: homebiscuit - by NYC4jags - 07-18-2023, 11:16 AM
homebiscuit - by homebiscuit - 08-18-2023, 01:47 PM
RE: homebiscuit - by mikesez - 08-18-2023, 02:40 PM
RE: homebiscuit - by WingerDinger - 08-18-2023, 02:45 PM
homebiscuit - by homebiscuit - 08-25-2023, 06:45 PM
RE: homebiscuit - by NYC4jags - 08-25-2023, 07:53 PM
RE: homebiscuit - by WingerDinger - 08-25-2023, 08:53 PM
homebiscuit - by homebiscuit - 09-01-2023, 11:04 AM
RE: homebiscuit - by flsprtsgod - 09-01-2023, 11:12 AM



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