I think people are kinda bad at online discussion.. Especially on Twitter. I find that whenever I witness any online discussion, it always involves one or more of these things:
1) Someone completely misinterprets what someone is saying and instead of taking a step back and acknowledging that they may have misunderstood what the other person said, they double down and continue to argue their point makes the argument more heated all because they are allergic to acknowledging their wrongs.
2) Someone is extremely passive aggressive, using terms like: "hope this helps!", "so close! It's actually....", "[inset image of man standing in court or whatever] I don't think [goofy nothingburger] is [bad/good] actually.", "oh, that's not..", etc. Making them excruciatingly annoying to talk to.
3) Insane levels of unnecessary name calling.
4) Someone makes an insane accusation based on literally nothing but their own feelings (ie. calling someone a "racist", "pedophile", "classist", "ableist" etc.) without being able to accurately explain why or how the person they're arguing with is any of these..
5) Lying? No Source? Why?! Believe it or not, if you make an insane claim and you have zero proof for your claim, no one will believe you..They don't have facts.. People will keep dropping percentages without sources, mention articles without linking, quoting scholars and other people without proof (ex: "Didn't [Insert Creator] say/confirm [blank]?"), making very wide generalizations without having a foot to stand on... and so on and so forth. Also you can't just bring faulty proof to the discussion especially if you have sketchy websites as your proof.. It's kinda like how homophobic Touhou fans keep using a fake ZUN interview from an anime equivalent of the Onion to "prove" that ZUN actually hates gay people and doesn't want people to ship the game's female cast together. (yeah bc a game only filled with women def wouldn't have yuri fan works spawn from it...)
6) [THIS POINT WAS USELESS].
7) Rejecting the words from those more educated than themselves.. "Scientists don't know everything!" It's safe to say that the people who spent several decades learning about this stuff and doing research would probably know wayy more about Autism, DID, Tourette's, etc than some 15 yr old kokichi kinnie on Twitter does...??
8) Not understanding that two things can be true at the same time...also not understanding that two things can be WRONG at the same time..
9) Bad Faith arguing. Bringing up an unrelated stuff or purposely misconstruing your words... or forcing you to argue silly semantics.. Example:
Person A: The sky is blue.
Person B: No, the sky is orange.
Person A: Ugh? No, the sky is blue...? Not orange.
Person B: What about when the sun sets? Huh? What then.....?? Isn't the sky orange then???
Person B probably already understands that Person A wasn't including special cases in their original statement. But because Person B is annoying, stupid, and they love arguing.. they will force this silly back and forth to spawn when it should go without saying that MOST of the time, the sky is blue and the sky is only orange during the sunset or during the sunrise... Don't respond to these type of people. They are dumb.
10) Uhhh... Someone going out of their way to disagree just because they can??? Like, they'll just argue a point no one thought about or cares about so they're just taking up talking space to say absolutely nothing. example:
Person A: I don't think people should adopt black cats just for decoration during Halloween.
Person B: I understand but I think you should understand that some people don't adopt black cats during Halloween for decoration, some people adopt black cats during Halloween simply because they want to.
?????? As you can see, Person B is literally just spouting stuff that no one asked for and is just talking for the sake of doing so. Normal people adopting black cats during Halloween for no reason other than just wanting a cat obviously aren't a problem.... So why mention it?
11) People not understanding that their personal experiences doesn't take away from another person's experience... If someone tells you that they don't like going on boat cruises because they get sea sick, and you respond with, "Well I've been on several boat cruises and I'VE never been seas sick.." I think the person you're talking to deserves to have the rights to blow your head off right in that moment..... WHO CARES ABOUT YOU AND YOUR EXPERIENCE??? You never having seas sickness doesn't take away from the fact that they have sea sickness whenever they go on boat cruises...
....all in all Twitter arguments are lame and stupid and I hate going back and forth with anyone on Twitter. I'm sure there are a bunch of annoying things I'm missing but I can't think of them and I just ordered some chicken tenders and they're on the wayyyyy :D
Ciaoooooo!!!
