I’ve been remiss in posting deserving “Comments of the Day,” and I apologize. It’s not that there haven’t been worthy submissions, its just been a fact that getting content up on EA at all has been especially challenging of late. The last Comment of the Day was almost a month ago. Yikes.
Below, after a brief observation on the specific incident inspiring the post, Charles Abbott segues from the CEO fired for trolling the Trump Deranged in social media with a photo saluting “Lake America” to the ideological grandstanding that has taken over Facebook, at least based on what I am reading there.
Here is his Comment of the Day on the post, “Not An Ethics Quiz: The “Lake America” Sweatshirts”:
It seems the safest thing to do is simply to shut up. That will be a post for another day.
I want to redirect this comment to the topic of your experiences on Facebook. I’m not an expert on the the topic but I’ve had a Facebook account for approximately 20 years now. Like many of us.
You often post that you are surprised by the sorts of posts and comments and behaviors you see on Facebook from people you know personally and/or professionally.
Here’s the way it looks to me. If Facebook has ever been a place where people went to debate things in good faith, or to seek the truth, or to strive after correcting error, that time is long gone.
Congratulations, Charles. I choose the nonengagement route on Facebook myself because I have too much experience knowing that it won’t matter and because I prefer to keep Facebook for light entertainment.
On the list of Trump Deranged symptoms, I would almost certainly include blatant double standards like the photo above. If a conservative entertainer (or a conservative at all) dressed like that in public, he or she would be accused of the most virulent anti-semitism and it be taken as proof positive that conservatives are Nazis/Fascists/White Supremacists.