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> It's a public lynching. This is hysterical nonsense and makes you look deranged.

• dang 11y ago
  I think that's excessive. marknutter's comments were passionate and yes he was venting. But the key concept in what he wrote—"daily boost of self-righteousness"—is absolutely a thing, and unawareness of it makes all of this much worse.
  • rodgerd 11y ago
    Lynching is the process of murdering people, usually by torturing them to death. I could link you some pictures or accounts of actual public lynching victims if you'd like. People telling using the same right of free speech the author exercised to tell the author that they come across as an awful human being might hurt the author's feelings, but it isn't even in the same ballpark as, say, being dragged into a theatre and shot to death by scores of people using low-calibre firearms so it lasts longer.
    • marknutter 11y ago
      Pedant much? It's a metaphor. And if you really want to get pedantic, what do you call it when someone gets harassed so brutally online that they end up committing suicide? Sure, they weren't "dragged into a theater and shot to death by scores of people using low-calibre firearms so it lasts longer" but the result is still the same.