I always try to remember not to punch down. I got redpilled when I was really young (like middle school aged) and went through a period of being extremely cruel to people I disagreed with online. Maybe I've just become more sensitive since then, but in retrospect I regret acting that way. There's more to every story.
When I see accounts like Libs of TikTok I see a lot of internally broken people being harassed by someone who's basically a celebrity with tons of reach. We never see the full story. That "woke tranny" was probably harmed by someone they trusted as a child. The college girl crying about wages is probably miserable being forced into a masculine role she wasn't cut out for. The person getting vaxxed in 2023 might have health problems that cause them to live in unreasonable fear. It's true that personal responsibility is important, but at the end of the day we're all sinners. I'm sure there's something we did in the past that keeps us all up at night. I just hate seeing the spiteful, bullying attitude a lot of right-wing influencers have. At some point it just becomes a minstrel show of "look how healthy and normal I am" making people feel better about themselves at the expense of mentally ill zoomers. I pray for those people to have health and peace one day. I don't feel better about myself when I see messed up people on TikTok.
I once took a nonfiction writing class at a liberal college. Eventually, as the term went on, people felt free to write more personal things. About half the class eventually admitted to having been abused in some way sexual, physical, etc., mostly by a family member. It was a real eye opener.
Wow, no doubt. I keep a short list of stats about things like that. How many kids in 100 are being abused, how many domestic violence cases likely in a 100, that sort of thing. It helps when engaging with people to realize that horrible person in a group is likely someone dealing with horrible things themselves❤
a therapist told me yrs ago that 1 in 3 women r victims of INCEST! :(((