I’ll keep this short and won’t belabor the obvious points about relatively-faceless online communication, which is flawed and anger-driven too often.
Here’s the set-up: last week, I wrote a post about Katrina K. after she dragged me on an email blast of hers. Some of the post is stupid, for sure, but the core idea — that it’s hard to preach and practice inclusion and then talk shit on people who don’t fit into your molds and boxes — is still there. I got dragged by a bunch of people online for this post (predictably), including this gem last night as I was making dinner:
“Unbearably low standards” feels very tolerant of others, and very inclusive and nice and all that. It’s very HR-speaky, isn’t it?
Anyway, someone else on the same thread — since deleted — told me I had “no dignity.”
The person who said that has:
- Never met me once in-person.
- Never had a conversation with me.
- I think we’ve maybe exchanged two emails ever.
- Possibly did a few lack-of-dignity things him/herself that I won’t mention herein, including photos and phones.
Even if you’re basing it on one blog post, how can you tell someone you’ve never met or interacted with that they “lack dignity?”
When you add the ease of these conversations to the block button, whereby someone can silence opinions and ideas they don’t like with one click, is it any wonder that shit is so partisan and chaotic and feels out of control so often?
Now, I’d be the first to admit I have many, many flaws — it’s all over this blog, but here’s a place to start — but I’m not sure calling out two-faced reactions to stuff means I “lack dignity.”
Just my two cents therein. Thoughts on digital communications?
How snide of Katrina – name calling – professional.
Sympathies