You know things are dire when I find a point of agreement with Julia Ioffe. She right about the cruelty of twitter users who claim to be fighting injustices. These blood-thirty bandits have mistaken self-indulgent for righteousness.
You really don’t need to annihilate someone so as to correct their mistake. Someone’s err is not a license for you to project your own pathologies and be a fucking bully. I have seen people who used to claim to care about bullying turn into blood-thirsty monsters on this App.
While this App has empowered many who don’t have the trappings of power and its privileges, it has also allowed people with personal demons to enact vigilante justice and it’s not without consequences.
Introspection shouldn’t just be for bad and privileged people. Even well meaning people need it so as to keep their retributive impulses in check.
Power is transitory and the most dangerous people are “victims” who think they can do no harm and then become powerful without the moral sense of the angelic and demonic in human nature. That’s how you end up with Israel.
This App is like a street corner but for humiliation artists, instead of drug dealers.
