…and it must stop. I’m tired of tolerating an internet where people are unfairly targeted for their race, gender, sexuality, etc. In my latest for The Daily Beast, I didn’t want to target the “trolls”, but those who shrug this off, claiming it’s not a big deal, who say “That’s the Internet”.
Nope. That’s cover that allows this toxicity to continue. We can and must do better.
The “It’s just the Internet” excuse-makers make an exception to their “anything goes” position. That exception is banning them or blocking them or otherwise keeping them from being nasty to their targets. They consider it a terrible wrong, an affront against all that is good. I’ve directly experienced trolls whining about what a terrible wrong it is for their targets to have banned them.