Honestly, for me it’s not even about that. If you go to a restaurant and you get served a pile of mush that was clearly made by microwaving previously frozen ingredients, you can say the food tasted bad, or you can call it a steaming pile of crap. But you don’t know shіt about their kitchen and the people who work there, so you don’t get to call the chef a bumbling idiot or to yell at the server.

That’s why I can’t stand self-entitled pricks who insist that the concept of not being a dіck to someone whose story you have no clue about is somehow “woke” and “politically correct”, rather than a matter of being a decent human being.

And before anyone accuses me of being a hypocrite for insulting these people, the difference lies in that there’s not much relevant detail that we don’t know about them: they’ve been given every chance to be more decent and they doubled down on their detestable behavior.

So as far as I’m concerned, I’m not one of those “friends” of theirs that you mention later on in your post. They deserve no further benefit of the doubt. The best way to deal with their outbursts is to flag them and move on. Maybe they’ll eventually do some thinking and self-reflection and decide to change. Or maybe they’re incapable of that and they’ll leave. Or maybe they’ll keep pulling the same crap and getting their stuff hidden. Any way you slice it, it’s a win for the community, as opposed to pandering to them and derailing threads by giving them undeserved attention.

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