I see a lot of articles and sometimes hear how people are reacting on Twitter. Twitter has become apparently the arbiter of things even things like who is guilty of abuse and who should be shamed.
This is sort of like deciding that letters to the editor should be used to determine public policy.
I'm not saying that people shouldn't express opinions on Twitter or anywhere else, but I don't see any reason to give them more influence than they deserve.
I don't know how many people contribute to these posts and while some are clever or funny, I just don't know if they reflect overall opinions or sway any significantly.
Still its become sort of an instant feedback forum that is picked up on by various media as an indicator of public opinion.
Speaking of which, we now see people attacked and sometimes convicted for offenses that may or not be anything at all.
There was recently a tweet by Samuel L. Jackson that could be interpreted as a number of Trump supporters giving him oral sex.
This was attacked as homophobic, but is it?
The acts that go on between consenting adults is their own business. They don't however have any type of monopoly on them.
If in fact you interpret that tweet to mean what some interpreted it, it would have in fact constituted an act of sexual harassment since they were effectively his employees required to perform that act to keep their jobs.
It has nothing to do with acts between consenting adults.
What if the implication was that they had to kiss his ass?
Would that be offensive to people?
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