Are We Entering An Endless Cycle Of Irrelevant Stupidity?

[sp1814]

The Internet is a great place for exchanging views, and challenging viewpoints...but have we entered a period where we now have two tribes - one waiting to be offended by something, and the other waiting for the first to be offended to condemn them for being offended?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/stephen-fry-condemns-twitter-as-stalking-ground-for-the-sanctimoniously-self-righteous-after-a6875506.html

Is this the future? Do we no longer really care about the issue, but are more interested in sharing how offended we are on the 'rainbow of outrage'?

What's your take on this?

[andy-hughes]

ichkeria - //Outraged right wingers don't as a rule form protest groups. A bit too collectivist. They just come to Answerbank or write to the Mail or Express :-) //

I don't think the EDL got that memo!!!

[Cloverjo]

Sp, it's not just pixels. They are real people typing words that represent what they feel, however misjudged they might be.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

/// The social media fascists have decided to be offended on the lady's behalf, which says far more about them than her, or indeed Mr Fry. ///

It won't be the first time that you yourself has been offended on someone else's behalf, so does that also make you a social media fascist?

[jackthehat]

Years ago those people would have had to sit at the Kitchen table composing their poisonous missives with a plentiful supply of green ink. These days, a few key-strokes can see them share their opinions, real or assumed, with the rest of the world.

AB illustrates this beautifully. There are some people who have such ill-feeling towards other contributors that they cannot help but take every opportunity to demonstrate it.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - //andy-hughes

/// The social media fascists have decided to be offended on the lady's behalf, which says far more about them than her, or indeed Mr Fry. ///

It won't be the first time that you yourself has been offended on someone else's behalf, so does that also make you a social media fascist? //

Admirable restraint in waiting so long, but as usual, you have chosen to pick up my post out of the eight-four you had to choose from.

However, to answer your point - I dispute that I am ever 'offended on someone else's behalf' - I am extremely hard to offend, which is why I have lasted so long on this site.

I am always willing to defend anyone whom I believe has been unfairly treated - and thank heavens there are others on here who feel the same, or it would be a sad and bitter place.

So in short, no, that does not make me a social media fascist - primarily because I do not use social media - in my view the AB is not part of that concept.

[mrblear]

Are we entering an endless cycle of ........ bickering?

[jackthehat]

You seem to have a strange definition of 'outrage', AOG.

Perhaps if you were less inclined to nit-pick and point-score, your threads wouldn't so often descend into squabbles?