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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on July 09, 2018, 06:57:46 PM
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Inside online shaming, and the 'viral infamy' that follows
https://abcnews.go.com/US/inside-online-shaming-viral-infamy/story?id=56200539
A year after the video of him confronting a Chick-Fil-A employee over the fast-food chain's anti-LGBTQ stance went viral, Adam Mark Smith wasn't sure he wanted to live anymore.
He had lost his job, become the subject of death threats and had photos of his children published online. Many of the commenters told him he was a "piece of garbage," and others suggested he kill himself.
"As a result of making this mistake, and as a result of going through that shaming and that super dark night of the soul, I definitely questioned whether I should live any longer," Smith told ABC News. "I contemplated suicide about a year after, and I had never had those thoughts before."
Many of them featured in the article are leftists.
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Many of them featured in the article are leftists.
Predictably, for a couple of reasons. Obviously MSM outlets skew liberal with their message, as expressed through their content. Also, outbursts like that idiot's seem to be predominantly by Progs, who then dominate the population of "victims".
As for the twit in your quote, he found and drove to a CfA, went through the drive-through line, and unloaded on the (probably teenaged) employee whose "sin" was working there. That was not a slip-of-the-tongue "mistake" that was calculated and planned moronicity. The death threats and doxxing of his family were utterly wrong, but stupidity has consequences, and sometimes consequences of escalated stupidity.