A society of cowardice driving passive aggressive effeminacy means slander and reputation destruction is the favoured toxin of the day.
Slander and maligning are common and often go unpunished at great personal cost.
Why is psychological violence okay when physical is not?
I do find it comical that people with words or phrases like "survivor", "end abuse" and "justice for victims" in their profiles are the most likely to abuse, berate, bully, malign, slander and cuss virtually anyone with a contrary view they find alarming.
An irony lost on them.
Why be against one kind of abuse only to engage in another form of abuse yourself?
You have to be truly quite mid-witted, if not dull, to be so egregiously lacking in self-awareness you deem yourself "1 of the good guys standing up for what's right" when you're abusive yourself.
If it is your instinct or desire to be mean or cruel to anyone for any reason, you are abusive.
Believing you are justified in being so, and have a pretext to inflict your cruelty because you have dehumanised your target "because they're a nazi!" doesn't make you a good person.
This is the perhaps one of the most common problems I observe in western society today
Shitty people thinking they're on the right side of history, because anyone with a view contrary to their own isn't afforded basic human decency and is therefore fair game to malignantly abuse
Nietzsche said if you stare into the abyss too long, the abyss stares back at you.
So if you think you're fighting monsters all the time, you will become one.
Just a deluded one who thinks they're one of the good guys when they've become the very thing they purport to hate.
Principles are what keep you grounded.
If you are against abuse, you don't get to be abusive.
Otherwise you're just hypocritical.
You're not against abuse at all, because you're more than willing to engage in what you're supposedly against.
And then nobody takes you seriously
There are times when aggression is necessary in a defensive capacity, such as when defending yourself or your loved ones from immediate harm.
But witch hunts and harassment are not defensive. They are acts of unrestrained and unprovoked aggression masking themselves as justice.
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