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What a sad world we live it. My first time even looking at an ElonJet post on Facebook this morning and the first comment I see is: > I can't wait to hear of h
by coryfklein 4y ago
What a sad world we live it. My first time even looking at an ElonJet post on Facebook this morning and the first comment I see is:
> I can't wait to hear of his sudden death due to a plane crash. Now we're talking a merry fucking Christmas!
This, on a social media site billed to "bring us together", on a page whose goal seems to be publicly stalking an individual who I don't know personally but everyone here seems to hate him and revel in any possible hurt that can come to him.
I can already hear the, "well he's a douchebag and he deserves it." Sure, I guess. It's just that my last social interaction was getting together with my parents, siblings, neices, and nephews to celebrate Christmas and everything was so warm and bright and kind. So it's quite a stark change to walk onto the internet this morning and remember that it's a battleground of hate, criticism, and unkindness. I think I'll go somewhere else today.
- happytoexplain 4y ago>I can already hear the, "well he's a douchebag and he deserves it." Careful with things like "I can already hear..." and "The same people who..." and "X people probably think...". You can easily find concrete examples of people behaving badly, but when you start to jump ahead of it to lament theoretical examples, that's how you cultivate images of imagined enemies in your head and start to contribute to the hate machine yourself.
- coryfklein 4y agoI appreciate this advice.
- Encrypt-Keeper 4y agoNot "public stalking", you can't stalk a plane. It's just information about what his plane is doing, which is public information just like every other plane. If you wanted to stalk Elon Musk the person, you would just follow his social media accounts, he's on them constantly.