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In reply to the discussion: It's perfectly clear that the ass who wrote those horrible letters to Bravenak has lost... [View all]MrScorpio
(73,772 posts)Mostly because none them could be bothered to give a rat's ass about being offended when #BLM activists confronted Bernie. That wasn't their struggle. They're already a bunch of racist flea bitten dipshits and they don't give a flying fuck about Bernie.
No, that letter was steeped in both a sense of white entitlement and white fragility, the kind that we've seen all too often in the internecine conflicts here, in which we only have ourselves to blame. Trolls, on the other hand, operate on a sense of immediate gratification. They want their negative feedback right away and up front, in ways in which they can control the ability to see that reaction. This wasn't a troll, this was a person who feels completely justified in their own position, based on the time and effort it took to track down Bravenak's snail mail address, type the letters up, stuff them in envelopes and mail them to her.
That speaks to definite aura of single-mindedness as well, not to mention an obsession that this person has with upholding a previous conflict with her, even while she's on time out. I would also hazard a supposition that her temporary inability to engage with said person infuriated the writer sufficiently enough to convince themselves that they had to take the extra step to attack her. That's purely personal on their part. Trolls don't get personal, they don't care.
And I have a very good reason to believe that we're dealing with an active member here, not one of our castoffs. Again, I'm not at liberty to explain why, but that's what I truly believe.
I do understand the inability for self-examination, this shit isn't easy to see when it's in the mirror.
I hate to brag, but I usually am a pretty good judge of character, that's because I'm very deliberative about how I come to gauging what people write.