Online Hate Doesn't Faze Me
Cnet has quite a little library of articles discussing various aspects of online hate going. I was clicking around on them and then I came to Here's the brutal reality of online hate by one Terry Collins back on July 11 of this year. |
I have a unique perspective in this regard because during my life some of my best friends have been Jews and therefore I have not had any issues personally with anyone of that persuasion.
Me, I also decline to stoop to such levels of depravity in my expression because I was a "late bloomer" so to speak and spent earliest adulthood being obnoxious and oblivious only to come to the realization that I should "straighten up and fly right" if I wanted to make it in civilized society.
Civility did not become a component of my personality til sometime around age 28. I use that age as a milestone because it represents that time im my life I first considered my actions "stupid" and realized that for the years prior I had been behaving thusly yet did not have the realization that indeed I was stupid.
I suppose when you're stupid you don't realize it at all. This was the case with me.
The ugly truth of the matter is there are others just as vile and filled with vitriol towards their fellow people who retain this orientation through much of their entire existence and I was determined that this would not be the case in my life.
So no, there will be no animal mutilations. No I'm not going to troll anyone and call them names or hurt them as do some anonymous, characterless cyberbully. And no, there will be no profanity laced interactions or pushing, shoving, hitting or any other act of violence.
This has little to nothing to do with that esteem I may or may not feel for another person. It is simply a reflection of the Dave born on his 28th year who decided that the bar was too low and a higher standard was indicated for that person who is me.
I may not be the handsome young blond curly haired Tarzan of my youth; but that which I have become is someone I can look in the eye unashamed of that which I have become.
I don't think purveyors of online hate can really think this in the absence of some distorted reality in which they exist.