You reap what you sow....

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(11-22-2021, 04:31 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Yeah, that's how it's generally used, hence my issue with it.  There's a huge difference in something someone said today versus twenty years ago.  Like any "movement" it's gone to the extremes, but that's how this country works, we swing from one extreme to the other with brief, blissful periods of sanity in the middle.

I guess I see it more as something that isn't new but some people want to act like IS new and is some emerging threat that is only aimed at people like them by people who aren't like them.  I guess that's the overly political aspect to it.

I think of older examples like John Lennon facing immediate backlash for the "bigger than Jesus" quip, or Johnny Mathis having a career nosedive after he admitted he was gay (in 1980, or so?).  A semi-recent thing was people who tweeted Halloween costumes of themselves as victims of the Boston Marathon and that leading to a debate over whether or not people should be harassed by the entire world for making a tasteless joke.

Today's stuff is more like our culture being caught unawares by the long-lasting impact social media and the internet can have due to us having no long-term idea of how putting stuff out there today would affect things years later.  Maybe this is like people who started smoking in the 1950s when it was all over the place and doctors even promoted cigarettes.  People will look back like they did at that situation and say "Did you really need a warning to know doing something stupid today could hurt you down the line?"

We are the lab rats of the social media era, methinks.