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Why Is It So Fun to Condemn People on Facebook? - C C - Oct 24, 2014
http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-is-it-so-fun-to-condemn-people-on.html
EXCERPT: I'm not hatin' on hatin'. I want to be clear about that up front. Condemning rotten behavior is a crucial moral activity, and Facebook is a powerful means of doing so. My friends' Facebook condemnations of sexism and racism and ableism, for example, have increased my awareness of those issues. And yet... condemning people's bad behavior on Facebook is almost too fun, in a way that niggles at me somehow. Why is it so fun, and what do its pleasures reveal about it? ...