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If you have a disagreement with someone in your peer group or dislike a statement they made on one platform, and your response is to post about it on a platform they can& #39;t respond to or have no knowledge of?
You immediately lose my respect.
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You immediately lose my respect.
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Because it& #39;s clear to me you& #39;re not interested in discussion, you want a place where either your peers all think alike, or you don& #39;t respect/trust your peers enough to have honest, difficult conversations with them.
And in either scenario, why are you even there?
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And in either scenario, why are you even there?
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I really want to know: what do you meaningfully gain from your subtweet? In what possible way have you advanced either of your positions?
You& #39;ve pulled in other people who have *zero* context for your gripe. And they& #39;re your followers, so no shit they& #39;ll take your side
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You& #39;ve pulled in other people who have *zero* context for your gripe. And they& #39;re your followers, so no shit they& #39;ll take your side
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Congratulations, you& #39;ve created an echo chamber.
Don& #39;t get me wrong, it& #39;s normal and healthy to seek validation. That& #39;s what personal messages to friends or loved ones are for.
Bringing it here, roughly 1-2 degrees separated from the main cause, is shit for another reason.
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Don& #39;t get me wrong, it& #39;s normal and healthy to seek validation. That& #39;s what personal messages to friends or loved ones are for.
Bringing it here, roughly 1-2 degrees separated from the main cause, is shit for another reason.
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Let& #39;s say the person you disagreed with reads your tweet. They *know* it& #39;s about them. What are they supposed to do? Just scroll on like nothing happened?
Clearly not; you sure didn& #39;t.
So if they respond in *your* space, your echo chamber, they& #39;ll get dogpiled to hell.
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Clearly not; you sure didn& #39;t.
So if they respond in *your* space, your echo chamber, they& #39;ll get dogpiled to hell.
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So now you& #39;ve created a scenario where someone who probably wanted an honest discussion with you is left to process these new shitty feelings.
Why must they take the high road because you didn& #39;t?
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Why must they take the high road because you didn& #39;t?
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I& #39;ve seen this happen twice in just as many weeks in a group I& #39;m quite passionate about.
It extra sucks to see it come from people I admire in my field, to see that basic decency is no longer a given.
Typing this out, maybe I just need to look into other spaces.
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It extra sucks to see it come from people I admire in my field, to see that basic decency is no longer a given.
Typing this out, maybe I just need to look into other spaces.
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SUPER IMPORTANT CAVEAT:
If you& #39;re tweeting bc the other actor is overtly harmful and continuing to engage directly would put you in danger, subtweet away!
If you& #39;re tweeting bc the other actor is overtly harmful and continuing to engage directly would put you in danger, subtweet away!
