Lindy West Quotes

Internet Trolling Wasn't Just A Symptom, It Was A Canary. Trolls Tested The Boundaries Of How Far Society Would Allow Racism, Misogyny, And Transphobia To Be Normalized. Would Anyone Do Anything? Would Anyone Take Action? Would Anyone Powerful Take This Seriously? The Answer Turned Out To Be No. Those Of Us On The Receiving End Begged For Help, And Were Told To Grow A Thicker Skin, Because The Internet "isn't Real Life." Until, Surprise, The Internet Became President, And We As A Society Were So Inured To Hate Speech - Our Boundaries Had Been So Thoroughly Obliterated And "political Correctness" So Stigmatized - That We Had No Defense. There

Related Authors

• Alexander Meiklejohn
• Ben Law
• Christian Simamora
• Dieter Appelt
• Joel Hodgson
• Kat Mellon
• Lucinda Lane
• Mia Ashlinn
• Patricia Ryan Madson
• Samuel Daniel
• Tim Lebbon
• Yveta Germano

Related Topics

• Quotes About Human Bones

  [T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth — William Faulkner

• Quotes About Future Life Partner

  There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have no idea how many interesting people you'll meet — Matthew Quick

• Quotes About Gst

  I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in — Brian Mulroney

• Absent Mother Quotes

  It feels as though there is a gaping hole in the middle of everything. The decades of my mother's life here with Thalia, they are dark, vast spaces to me. — Khaled Hosseini

• Grab Me Quotes

  I'm not sure I ever made a woman come with my mouth before I met you," he admits. "I love kissing you there. And I love your ass, it's perfect." — Christina Lauren