What upsets me is that even now the same people complaining about the loss of civility are the ones making fun of others. To be fully honest I have a facial deformity and get very little if any respect anywhere I go. I have a college degree but can’t land a decent job. Was tutoring for a while but that abruptly ended even though the children liked me and I was improving all their grades. Now even Christian and Conservative sites have become cliquey. It also really hurts when people old enough to be my grandparents insult me like a schoolyard bully. Although it shouldn’t surprise me as even nursing homes have to have assigned seating at dinner to keep the peace.
If you feel the same lack of respect in-person and online, maybe it’s your attitude.
Well, that to me highlights one of the things that is still great about this forum.
Here, you will be hoisted on your own petard of rhetoric if not your lack of critical thinking. Nobody knows what you look like, and often, even what sex you are.
I kind of find that very equalizing here.
I am guilty of incivility here. I just spent three or four days going back and forth with a few Freepers, and I deliberately strayed from my own efforts to keep things civil. It was on a subject I find critical, and have wrestled with one of them for a long time on it.
But, I always try to pick myself up, dust myself off, and try to resist incivility. I try, but am not always successful.
Even still-you can still get civil and informative discourse here. It is possible. And it is still a good, early source of news. I was visiting a friend in Florida, driving home the next day, and surfing the Internet well after midnight, after the time the ship hit the bridge in Baltimore, and FR shouted it out pretty quick.
I get annoyed by the tenor of the threads on the Ukraine-Russia war.
You can only be a “Putin Lover” (Pro-Russian) or a worshiper of the “Globohomo Alliance” (Pro-Ukraine).
I generally avoid them, but sometimes poke in to see if anything has changed, or for the entertainment value, but that isn’t worth the calories.
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