hi, so I saw a recent post on r/egypt about a taxi situation and in my opinion the OP here sounded a bit harsh and the post from the tone screams privilege too.
well given that it seemed the taxi driver here was complaining about others having a better life while sure the taxt driver’s behaviour here might not have been good don’t you think calling the driver here a loser etc is a bit harsh?
Yeah. It isn’t a Reddit only problem, but a people problem where Reddit just shows this off the best.
Systematic answer: The Reddit commenter mindset. The medium of a link aggregator platform creates a dynamic where commenters receive an incentive to be the most punchy, the fastest, the most trenchant, the wittiest, the sharpest, the most meta, the most ironic. So people naturally overreach. They try to ring that bell extra hard, from a place that isn’t genuine. They end up seeming unfunny, mean, glib, or reactive, rather than genuinely witty or interesting.
Personal answer: wisdom tells us not to blame victims, so we know aggression says more about the aggressor. They might just be at a low level of personal development due to situational factors, or more profound deficits such as a personality disorder.
Reddit is simply a mirror of contemporary society. Since global society ain’t doing so good and the advent of social media “rage bait” algorithms, people are just… assholes a lot of the time. Noticeably moreso than before the pandemic.
your judgement of someone is not a property of that other person.
what you’re expressing is an observation that says more about the observer than the observed.
Are you expecting us to trawl reddit to have a clue what you’re talking about?
