Your views: on social media cruelty and more
Today, readers comment on the often nasty online world, and emergency laws.
Commenting on the story: Ali Clarke: The era of relentless cruelty
Hear hear, Ali. Before social media and the internet and being able to troll, what did people do?
Did they head to the supermarket, a cafe, a petrol station and randomly spew vitriol and bile at anyone around them? Did they keep it inside and seethe privately? Did they maybe not think any of those thoughts at all?
It’s all beyond me and from a psychological standpoint I’m scared that we’re, on the whole, fast becoming more and more a race of toxic haters. – Catherine Fairweather
Good points Ali. I am continually disappointed with the way some people talk and act.
I would like to think these negative and sometimes callous keyboard warriors are the very small minority, but they seem to have a louder voice these days thanks to social media.
Twenty years ago (pre social media) their comments may have been said at a BBQ get together, to which most would have said ‘pull your head in’. Now they hide in shadows with no consequence other than further poisoning of their character. – Arran Brown
Interesting article and a somewhat revealing aspect of the human condition. – Jeremy Goodburn
Well written, Ali. I completely agree. I didn’t watch the programme. Not because I disapproved of the parents, but I disapproved of 60 Minutes chasing a sensational story, and didn’t feel comfortable about it all being dragged out again.
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I find myself starting to despair of the awfulness of humanity, reading some of the comments on social media on any number of topics. Who are these awful, ugly people, who feel the need to pour vitriol on others? Why do they feel the need to be so mean and spiteful? There must surely be a few of us around who believe in kindness to others. – Jill Huntley
Commenting on the story: SA pandemic emergency law set for review
Gee, a Eureka! moment. Finally, someone thinks it’s time to review the extraordinary powers of the Emergency Management Act.
What was envisioned by this act was the ‘short term management of immediate dangers’ by the Police Commissioner. South Aussies are generally a compliant lot and have for the most part responded patiently to the life changes consequent on the pandemic.
That patience is running out; people appear to be fed up with daily changes to directions or ‘decrees’ and the huge impacts on personal freedoms. South Australians want the government of the day and the parliament they elected to do their jobs, not to appear as mere bystanders. – Gilbert Aitken
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