When did hating become a spectator sport?
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When did hating become a spectator sport?
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This is such a good question, Pam.
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I hate to be the one to ask it but somebody needs to.
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Like attracts like? š
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There seems to be so many of them!
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Beats me!
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Me too. Sometimes literally.
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It’s the new favorite past time for all the idiots we live with! Good one Pam.
Ginger
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Thanks Ginger. I wish they would come up with a different pastime.
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It’s what happens when you give people anonymity, inside of which their true selves come out.
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That describes social media perfectly.
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Let’s hear it for the voices of reason in this wilderness.
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With each passing day, questions about society cause me to shake my head.
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It makes me think fondly of those who’ve managed to get off grid. Enticing some days.
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To quote some old song lyrics “The Day The Music Died.” (along with common sense, respect and compassion). All four are greatly missed.
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I love that song! And you are so very right.
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Maybe it has always been?
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I don’t remember there being quite so much hatred when I was growing up. Maybe it’s just better advertised now.
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I think so. And with social media, the haters find each other and draw support in their finding. At one time, civility camouflaged hate. The blinders have been torn off.
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It is such an easy sport to excel at, thanks to the feeling you can remain anonymous – even if your name is splashed about as you do it. It is truly a sad state of affairs.
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You are right Dale, it is a sad state.
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Sigh! Terrible isn’t it!
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And far too common!
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Agreeš
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I was going to say, ‘since the advent of social media’, but I think we have to go much further back than that to the origins of organised religions, who took it upon themselves to be the arbiters of morality and make it acceptable to demonise the ‘other’ in order to control and expand their ‘flocks’.
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The same way light and dark have always been with us, so it has love and hate.
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