I’d compare them to the study carrels at one of the libraries when I was in college. I remember being so dumbfounded by what a fellow human being had written about other human beings* that I got to a point where I had very little faith in humanity and became quite nihilistic, sending me into this phase for a while. In hindsight I might’ve reasoned that it was from one random asshole, and dozens of other people had sat there without offending anyone. But, there I went…
I didn’t (usually) see this kind of invective from my friends on Facebook, so much as it would crop up from friends of friends, on my friends’ timelines. News article comments (Washington Post, Yahoo! News etc.), though, are quite simply pits of simmering diarrhea.
*It’s not like I’d just fallen off the potato wagon turnip truck, I guess it was the last straw or something. To this day I don’t remember exactly what I read but it was something about our female opponents in the First Gulf War.
