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In reply to the discussion: Pro-Palestinian Protest at Holocaust Museum Sparks Fierce Backlash [View all]Sympthsical
(9,887 posts)"It's not that we're gallopingly stupid - which we are. It's that people noticed."
Why is it increasingly going this way? "We're kind of terrible people, but we didn't think anyone would notice, and how dare people draw attention to our rather loud and public actions."
There's this odd mindset settling into our culture that real life and the internet should work the same way, that these people can be shitty people in public with near total anonymity, and if you do not grant this anonymity, somehow you're the asshole.
I've seen people claiming they were "Doxxed!" for doing things openly on video in public. Like, what? Where in the social contract was it written that the public isn't allowed to notice someone's being a fucking idiot out in the open?
"I cannot believe you're witnessing my poor choices. How can you have done this to me?"
If you're out in public harassing people and others notice, that's the dildo of consequences.