The Terrorists of 4chan

[riqster]

119. I am sorry that I hurt you. I responded to what you wrote in response to my OP.

My OP said that certain 4chan users were terrorizing Emma Watson, and that this was terrorism aimed at subjugating women.

Your response was that 4chan were nothing but a bunch of jerks.

I took that to mean "no big deal", because that is pretty much what your post said.

Thus my response. Frankly , I was surprised to see you minimize the matter. I did not make an assumption that you were only minimizing a part of the matter, because there is no way for me to know which part you might have been minimizing.

I feel that dismissing a group of people who are acting in a misogynistic manner as nothing more than "jerks" does in fact minimize the nature of their actions, because it implies that these are garden-variety jerks acting in a manner typical of what we see. My OP says quite the opposite: these are not just buffoons, they are using terroristic means to silence a woman from speaking out on feminist subjects.

I understand that you did not mean to minimize their actions, and am sorry for my literal interpretation of your post. I hope this explanation will help you to understand why I said what I did.