How Israel's war against Hamas reinvigorates an inherent issue of online discourse
Once I have come across this article on the internet and read it, I must confess that I wasn't surprised since it was happening on Twitter, which has always been problematic even before Elon took over, but worsened rapidly after he took over. «The Washington Post»
But it's also symptomatic of a culture where paroles have trumped elaborate, fine-tuned arguments especially on thorny issues. What I mean is: Instead of detailing why they, for example, would support Palestinians despite their strong endorsement of the Hamas, the organisation whose rape, murder and pillage spree has triggered this all-out war, they will just share hashtags and paroles that you could easily repeat loud and wide on protests, and later wonder why the response to this is equally hateful and dispirited. As we would say in German: “So, wie man es in den Wald hineinruft, so kommt es auch wieder heraus”.