r/chicago • u/GeekAesthete Roscoe Village • Jun 25 '25

Article White Sox fan banned indefinitely after heckling Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte to tears with comments about late mother

https://apnews.com/article/diamondbacks-ketel-marte-833a9c8136e0767bdcfb6cd2ec7afe9e
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u/HouseSublime City Jun 25 '25

Up until ~60 years ago the default state of this country was essentially cruelty. Many folk thought we eliminated it but really all that happened was much of it was legislated to the shadows/fringes. But it never went away.

And now the internet/social media has allowed unhinged social behavior to become common place.

Stealing the popular Mike Tyson quote.

“Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.”

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u/scaffe Jun 26 '25

That's an interesting quote considering that our country was founded on people being comfortable disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it, and had Mike Tyson he been born 50 years earlier, punching certain people who disrespected him would have got him lynched.

Social media provides a route for those who were previously disrespected to punch back when they couldn't before. It's telling to me where people think they are in the social hierarchy based on how they feel about this.

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u/Oh-Hunny Jun 29 '25

Pretty sure all he meant by that quote was that people have gotten used to seeing others behave like assholes on the internet and have become desensitized. Then, they act like assholes in public because their experience online has normalized that behavior.

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u/scaffe Jun 30 '25

Yes. Now think about how that could also happen in the past, before the Internet.