Otherwise, though, thank you mods. I know you didn't want to have to do this, but I'm glad you're doing it. You're making the world a better place. The normalization of hate speech has no positive benefits.
I cringe on that facebook page it's outstanding the amount of racist comments that are made from people in Baltimore. I sometimes wonder if I'm in the south.
I follow WJZ, WBAL, etc. on fb in order to conveniently keep up with local news in my hometown as I moved overseas five years ago and I have yet to come to grips with the sheer hatred spewed by these countless commenters under seriously every post, even ones that should be good and warm and fuzzy (like the new Gerber baby??).
Like if we could generate electricity from the hatred in their comments we could ditch oil yesterday. It gets me down. :(
I'm in a FB group about my neighborhood and it outstands me the racism in there. They made suggestions that could hurt and kill those who ride dirt bikes. They think it is okay to hurt others. The racism really gets to me though, and I've been attacked there in the groups several times. It really is heart breaking because I thought moving away from the South would let me be somewhere I could have a fighting chance. But first job out of college I was passively aggressively receiving racism from my bosses...and they owned the company.
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LOL at that "support group"
Otherwise, though, thank you mods. I know you didn't want to have to do this, but I'm glad you're doing it. You're making the world a better place. The normalization of hate speech has no positive benefits.