I just saw another example on here of someone who had tweet that was poorly phrased/a bad take but not hateful or morally wrong, and they got dogpiled by both decent people who were critical as well as literal, actual unabashed nazis. Hypervisibility is absolutely brutal.
We need a way for people to say “hey, maybe I had a bad take, but can you pause the pile-on for a minute because there are genuinely hateful/dangerous attacks happening due to this amplification”. People don’t realize how often this tactic is used by hate groups to target people.
Nothing is more isolating or emotionally devastating for people than to be under attack simultaneously by both those who are decent but angry (upsetting because you messed up) *and* by those who are hateful (upsetting because they’re dangerous and unaccountable). It’s relentless.
When people who are fundamentally decent (but maybe made a mistake) say they’re leaving social media, it’s almost always this combination; being both isolated and attacked by organized evil is more than anyone can deal with. Hate groups online specifically try to catalyze it.
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