Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "DO NOT ACCEPT THE PREMISE OF ASSHOLES!" video.

  1. Wow... I didn't know replies went that far. Kinda glad I've been out of Twitter for almost a decade now, what a cesspool. Hopefully, Linus also didn't take those to heart... well, I'm pretty sure he had worse. Kids and their PC part brands can become very... unstable I guess. Last WAN show he commented briefly on the case, not of Twitter comments, but on the looney who went to his face to talk shit. Thing is, some of these people are parasites... perhaps they don't even realize, but they are. It's a sort of mentality that goes specially well with extreme activists - they aim to be offended by the weakest things, as long as the target is popular enough. Doesn't matter if they don't know shit about the person they are both attacking and playing the victim of, doesn't matter if the indignation is sort of an incoherent blabber (when there's any), doesn't matter if they sound like lunatics... it's some sort of mass cult-like behaviour that just spread like some sort of localized pandemic. Sometimes the feel vindicated, sometimes they feel they need to do this to be part of the club, sometimes they just take pleasure humiliating others. Which is all sorts of twisted. And I'm saying this as someone who actually defends some reasonable feminists flags, complaints and fight for rights. But attacks like the ones against Linus isn't feminism. It's just mass hysteria. Fanatism. Extremism. With a vague misguided sense of being part of a "group" there to replace religion. It's worrying how much this sort of behaviour is out there and how much time is being wasted on things like that... I dunno, I've seen enough displays of that sort of behaviour to think this era, if we survive it, will be labeled the age of lack of empathy. Of sociopathy. Of thinking only about yourself. There are lots of cultural phenomena and trends that points out to that. Isolated, some trends might look harmless or even kinda fun, but when you take the overview of it all, it's kinda scary. I know there's this real distancing effect that particularly the Internet and social network creates, which makes some people think it's alright to say the worst things imaginable, that he/she would never say to someone's face - because they don't feel the connection, don't see a human on the other side. But this is wrong, and if people don't start connecting the dots soon enough, it might end up being too late one day. I mean, really, we all have people we know that might make some inappropriate jokes at times, or that uncle of yours that's kinda racist, or your cousins that are kinda religious fanatic... do you jump at them with a knife to their throats everytime you see them? Start treating others on the Internet how you'd treat them in real life.
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