You know, I didn't want to engage. I really didn't. But I just snapped. Purposefully ignorant cowards, shouting falsehoods while hiding behind masks, make me want to punch people through the internet.
I knew going into it that I wasn't going to change her mind. That's not why I engage with these kinds of comments. I engage in the hopes that someone reading the thread will see it, and *think*, and maybe come out the other side with an opinion based in fact.
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Date: 2010-01-03 05:39 am (UTC)You know, I didn't want to engage. I really didn't. But I just snapped. Purposefully ignorant cowards, shouting falsehoods while hiding behind masks, make me want to punch people through the internet.
I knew going into it that I wasn't going to change her mind. That's not why I engage with these kinds of comments. I engage in the hopes that someone reading the thread will see it, and *think*, and maybe come out the other side with an opinion based in fact.