HylianSwordsman on 16 March 2019
| o_O.Q said: i hate to be that guy that defends people like candace owens(personally i think she's just an attention seeker and she's banking off of how polarised people are becoming) but i'm concerned with how people are completely willing to jump to conclusions about others so hastily... that is a massive problem and it is going to bite a lot of the people championing it in the ass if it goes too far the presumption of innocence and giving the benefit of doubt are things for a reason and we are throwing them away carelessly |
I think people are astoundingly in agreement in this thread, actually. Most people just think this is a horrible tragedy. There are some people angry at the rhetoric we see on Twitter and the like. No one is actually saying Candace isn't innocent, or that she should be punished, they're just saying that Twitter is toxic and its toxicity has real world consequences when crazy people draw inspiration from them, and that Candace is an example of that toxicity. The most I really see as a suggestion here is that we either tone down our rhetoric on highly public social media forums like Twitter, or accept that Twitter is just going to damage our society.
