One implication of the fact that social media companies go out of their way to stoke hate and conflict is that everyone should probably get in the habit of thinking twice before diving into online controversies, because there’s a very good chance that they’re being deliberately taken out of context, exaggerated, or otherwise framed in an intellectually dishonest fashion
I know the majority of you won’t abide by this advice. But I figured I’d post it anyway.
“telling someone to kiss your ass or get fucked etc is actual sexual harassment making you a sexual predator” was a Tumblr thing for years that people tried to do to me and everyone I know at least once. If someone says someone else is terrible but *doesn’t specify precisely why* it’s usually this kind of thing.
Honestly this is a big part of why when i see internet drama going down i usually try to treat it the same way i would if i heard a bar fight happening down the street. Turn around and walk the other way.
[Image IDs: Tumblr tags reading: (start all caps) #Yup #yup yup yup (end caps) #oh god you want to hear an example of this? #so back in 2020 this person was being irritating in the notes of my post so I replied ‘kiss my ass’ and blocked them #that was it. that was our only interaction. #and then this yeah I get a message from someone saying ‘hey this person just accused you of sexually harassing them?’ #and I’m like 'wait what the fuck??’ and go to check it out (start all caps) #And it’s the person I blocked a year ago (end caps) #the entire basis for the accusation is me using the phrase 'kiss my ass’ #I’m………….. (3 skull emojis) #I had not interacted with this person prior to that or after that. that was our single communication #so yeah if you see someone saying (start all caps) X person shot my dog and salted my crops (end caps) you might wanna dig a little deeper /End ID]
