With actual incidents notwithstanding (Weinstein and the like) Twitter seems to just have people apologising for anything or everything a certain person does or has said, it’s as if you don’t prostrate yourself in front of the Twitterati and beg for forgiveness, you will be admonished for eternity, and in some cases, even apologising isn’t enough, has this kind of gigantic groupthink always been around, or has Twitter magnified and enabled alot more people to bully certain individuals over what they said years and years ago?
Great question - I don’t really engage with Twitter (or anything more social than this place to be honest) - but from the outside it certainly seems that such fora are a series of witchhunts, struggle sessions, and pile-ons aimed at the villains of the day. I guess it’s just more visible now that much of the mainstream media is simply reposting stuff from the social media universe.
You either follow a lot of offensive people, or your baseline is skewed. I don’t see a lot of unnecessary apologies in my timeline.
Yeah, I’m on Twitter a lot, follow a lot of people and also read what those I follow retweet and like, and I don’t see a lot of apologies.