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The Best and Worst of Humanity
Warning: this post talks trolls and bigots, but mostly in the abstract sense
The internet is an interesting cesspit.
The best and the worst of humanity in one place.
(Thank God it’s not still 2016 — for graphic imagery and threats, that year has thankfully yet to be beaten for me.)
And if you’re a Queer Welsh woman with mental health problems and her own opinions about any number of topics, trolls will find you.
As they will for any number of other marginalised identities.
Or anyone simply sticking up for those identities.
…Or someone just making sense about global warming or vaccinations. Conspiracy theorists are… I don’t know how they keep getting internet access, but we need to figure it out. And possibly introduce them to the concept of critical thinking.
It always surprises me how much the anti-Welsh stuff stings.
Maybe it’s because it’s ethnic-based, maybe it’s just that I haven’t become as numb to it as I am to a lot of the other stuff — I honestly don’t know. But it’s… pretty awful, when it happens.