Quote Originally Posted by Coratanni View Post
It's something I've noticed with young people on social media. They look for something to fit a narrative they've already made up in their heads and if they find 1 post out of a hundred, or even a thousand, they hyper focus on it and everything else doesn't matter. All that matters is justifying their pre-made opinion.
Probably just the result of social media in general. I've said it before, in a real conversation, when standing face to face with a person, you don't have time to overthink and come up with a ridiculous offensive theory about every tiny thing the person says. You just communicate, snappy and fast, and even when somebody says something "questionable" it's easier to give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they didn't quite mean it that way. Words sometimes come out of our mouths faster than our brains manage to filter. Etc. Also most healthy people do not immediately get aggressive in such situations.

Digitally though. One misreads the tone of messages. One can sit there for hours, just stewing, making things up, assuming terrible stuff about the person on the other end. And without seeing that person it's easier to dislike them or downright hate them. Every tiny statement becomes a land mine.

Most of us would be completely fine if we talked it out irl. We'd find common ground and get over disagreements. Here we'll continue assuming that we're all monsters and our life goals are to be mustache twirling villains who hurt people on twitter.