• NotAPenguin@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I just made a comment about animal cruelty on social media, in a thread about animal cruelty on social media.

    Sadly speaking up for the animals provokes angry responses in many people.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not saying that you are solely at fault for the thread getting out of hand, but I hope we can agree that when things devolve to the point that we’re talking about murdering other users and eating their corpses that the discussion has probably gotten out of hand.

      I think there are ways of discussing even controversial topics without the conversation spinning out of control, but I know that this topic in particular touches a nerve with a lot of folks. Just please try to be mindful of whether you’re escalating or deescalating the argument in the future.

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        1 year ago

        It’s of course hypothetical, and I think, totally within reason, it’s a thread about animal abuse.
        It’s one of the problems we run into when speaking up against animal abuse, people call us extreme when we are really just being up front about what happens in reality.

        I try to keep it civil and respond matter of fact and explain but it can be hard when you get so much toxicity thrown back at you, all because you stand up against animal cruelty.