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It’s fun to troll online

Without more context, I have to assume you’re talking about the articles he wrote which I linked to in the grandparent.

I am not sure how pointing out it was unfair to get a woman in her mid-50s fired because she wore a costume in 2018 the Washington Post retroactively decided was politically incorrect in 2020 is “trolling”. More like, standing up for fairness, compassion, and justice.




I was referring to my own post. That person trolls like I do. I wouldnt ask for respect, I wouldnt give him any: he's exacerbating drama rather than solving the problem with the CDC, simply by using emotions rather than rational proposals.

Something I respect surprisingly is the wapo article https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/blackface... full of various points of views, explaining the issue clearly, taking no special position itself, even going to tell that person felt so bad about her idea of a joke or the reactions to it she left in tear, causing compassion for her in me...

So maybe it's trolling to say the wapo calls an old incident politically incorrect ? :p As an amateur troll myself I get why she found it funny to fight fire with fire and why some people just cant go that many levels of irony and it's hard to sometimes face the reactions to your own trolling. The Wapo itself seems completely innocent of any position and I appreciate the further attempt to paint it as such as good trolling, when they were trying to untroll the debate. Just like wearing a blackface to criticise defending blackfaces.




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