Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 9406436" data-attributes="member: 85555">Unfortunately this is a hard discussion to have without getting into politics but I think it is true we aren't where we were in say the 30s on this stuff. I don't think that means we can't be concerned about trendsNo, but demonizing language is one of the steps towards that kind of thinking. I think we would have a long way to go to get there. At the same time, I have seen language and views expressed in recent years that would have stunned me twenty years agoI think we shouldn't minimize how much a regular person's life can be ruined by public shaming or attention on social media. A job is everything. That is a roof over your head, that is food on your table, and jobs are hard to get for a lot of people (especially jobs that pay all the bills). Being ostracized, in an age of global interconnection through social media and the internet is one of the worst things a person can experience (even in ancient greece that was considered an especially cruel punishment----though there it was a formal punishment so there is clearly a difference). It is true people aren't getting dragged from their homes and murdered, but I don't think that is a reason to be happy or okay with how cruel we are being to one another in this age. Also suicide is a very real byproduct of this kind of social media behavior. Many people are one bad day on social media away from taking their lives.I think it is unwise to compare the present situation to say Nazi Germany or forced sterilizations of the past. Those are objectively much worse. But I look around and I do not like what people are becoming in their interactions with  one another, in the levels of cruelty folks seem comfortable with when there is keyboard distance between themselves and the life they are trying to ruin</blockquote>

Verification