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Originally Posted by Key
in the context of the internet and forums, there's already so much negativity and comments being misconstrued that really the safest way to go about it is just to dial back and just do your own thing. And throw in some positivity here and there.
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That's certainly the rational thing to do, and I should consider it more often.
The one downside I see is that it means you're being somewhat cautious and you don't really (or at least not as much) expose yourself to being judged, which is where so much of the beauty of social interaction lies for me. That's how you discover people.
For example if someone who more or less knows what type of person you are still trots out a lecture about "
erm actually it's really not cool that you take out your problems on gay people cause that's very colonizer of you " the moment you say something off-color, then you know that maybe it's not someone you're likely to have real talk with.
But that's also how you find the people who like you for who you are, and that can be pretty special, online or irl.