02-08-2025, 04:44 PM
I think regardless of this dude's age, my view is that internet shit talking + swearing + death threats just...the language of the forum (of the internet). I mean it isn't that long ago that netenyahu's son was posting "happy merchant" memes.
It's materially and impactfully different than, say, grandpa going on a racist tirade directed at the Walmart cashier in person. We can't equate every edgelord "hot" statement posted on twitter dot com as a guarantee of material behavior...and thank god for that.
If we fired everyone who threatened or wished JK Rowling dead, we wouldn't have anyone to wait on us in America's coffee shops left! We already as a society forgive this sort of Keyboard Warrior shit-talk all the time. I don't think there's any societal protection or benefit to half-assedly holding some arbitrary line that seems to only apply based on the poster's identity, and not the identity of the targeted group anyway.
It's materially and impactfully different than, say, grandpa going on a racist tirade directed at the Walmart cashier in person. We can't equate every edgelord "hot" statement posted on twitter dot com as a guarantee of material behavior...and thank god for that.
If we fired everyone who threatened or wished JK Rowling dead, we wouldn't have anyone to wait on us in America's coffee shops left! We already as a society forgive this sort of Keyboard Warrior shit-talk all the time. I don't think there's any societal protection or benefit to half-assedly holding some arbitrary line that seems to only apply based on the poster's identity, and not the identity of the targeted group anyway.