We've seen this before, I highly doubt this woman has received anywhere near the number (or even any) death threats over this. Really, who would be so enraged over this to actually commit murder? She's an entitled idiot, but you'd be hard pressed to find someone willing to go to jail to remove her from the population.
This reminds me in particular of Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame). Several years back (at least a couple years prior to 2016) he became a staunch conservative, and for a while he was using dilbert.com as his personal blog along with it being the official site for the comic strip. When the 2016 presidential campaign came around he openly championed the GOP candidates and demonized the democrats. He once claimed that he was receiving death threats from "Clinton supporters", but never was willing to provide a shred of evidence for it.
It seems that this has become a new weapon for people to use to try to claim the victim card. They can claim that they received "death threats" via email, twitter, facebook, some random blog, etc, and then conveniently not be able to find the evidence of said "death threats" when asked about them. You can't prove they didn't receive said threats, and they didn't name anyone specifically as threatening them so there is nobody who can claim defamation or false accusation. Eventually the claim just dissipates into the ether but they were able to capitalize - or at least deflect - on it for a while. They also notably never have to apologize for it as they never hurt any specific person by doing it.
I highly doubt this woman has received anywhere near the number (or even any) death threats over this.
I don't. People send death threats over pointlessly stupid shit. I'm willing to bet the Starbucks employee has received death threats too.
Really, who would be so enraged over this to actually commit murder?
No one. Death threats are the original internet toughguys. A bunch of losers claiming they will do something which almost universally never amount to anything. Shit man I've received death threats for proving someone wrong in a physics question. Some little tiny prick didn't like being wrong on the internet, bang death threat. Whoop de fucking do.
He once claimed that he was receiving death threats from "Clinton supporters", but never was willing to provide a shred of evidence for it.
I highly doubt this woman has received anywhere near the number (or even any) death threats over this. Really, who would be so enraged over this to actually commit murder?
Do you really think people who make death threats online are contemplating "actual murder"?
Or she may be getting "I hope [your own choice to not wear a mask causes] you [to] get Covid" and she's claiming that those wishes against her wellbeing are 'threats' in bad faith. Still not the nicest thing to say to anyone, but hardly a threat. Perhaps a "curse", but telling someone you hope they some day slip on a banana peel, fall into a sewer, and die, is not a death threat.
I just asked myself... what would John DeLorean do?
-- Raoul Duke
Claims of death threats = a coward's plea for help (Score:2, Insightful)
This reminds me in particular of Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame). Several years back (at least a couple years prior to 2016) he became a staunch conservative, and for a while he was using dilbert.com as his personal blog along with it being the official site for the comic strip. When the 2016 presidential campaign came around he openly championed the GOP candidates and demonized the democrats. He once claimed that he was receiving death threats from "Clinton supporters", but never was willing to provide a shred of evidence for it.
It seems that this has become a new weapon for people to use to try to claim the victim card. They can claim that they received "death threats" via email, twitter, facebook, some random blog, etc, and then conveniently not be able to find the evidence of said "death threats" when asked about them. You can't prove they didn't receive said threats, and they didn't name anyone specifically as threatening them so there is nobody who can claim defamation or false accusation. Eventually the claim just dissipates into the ether but they were able to capitalize - or at least deflect - on it for a while. They also notably never have to apologize for it as they never hurt any specific person by doing it.
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People send death threats for nothing. I have no problem believing she got several.
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I highly doubt this woman has received anywhere near the number (or even any) death threats over this.
I don't. People send death threats over pointlessly stupid shit. I'm willing to bet the Starbucks employee has received death threats too.
Really, who would be so enraged over this to actually commit murder?
No one. Death threats are the original internet toughguys. A bunch of losers claiming they will do something which almost universally never amount to anything. Shit man I've received death threats for proving someone wrong in a physics question. Some little tiny prick didn't like being wrong on the internet, bang death threat. Whoop de fucking do.
He once claimed that he was receiving death threats from "Clinton supporters", but never was willing to provide a shred of evidence for it.
Again I don't doubt that
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I highly doubt this woman has received anywhere near the number (or even any) death threats over this. Really, who would be so enraged over this to actually commit murder?
Do you really think people who make death threats online are contemplating "actual murder"?
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