Classical Sass
Jul 20, 2017 · 1 min read

Oy this piece is brilliant on so many levels! I read the title and had a certain, possibly rarer, type of troll pegged in my mind for your uncle, so the basic analog troll knocked me entirely flat. And SO MUCH YES to the horror of seeing their glee, because that’s the real payoff for them, for any bully, isn’t it? This dark roiling enjoyment. Glee. Yep.

I definitely do not engage. I try to hone my skills around recognizing when someone is or isn’t a troll in that I want to engage when there is an actual point. So mostly, yeah, I let them dangle, unless I’m telling them they’ll be blocked if their behavior doesn’t change. I think, though, it’s so important to remember that someone who falls for troll bait isn’t an idiot. These folks make an art of shitting on humanity and getting people roped into drama they don’t want. They are predators. They highlight the hypocrisy in ‘freedom of speech’. I keep waiting for society, community, and civilized efforts at large to get a grip on that hypocrisy. Oh well. #ugh

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