Don’t Feed the Trolls – It Just Encourages Them
by Jennifer Roback Morse, The Blaze:
As an observer of the human species, I believe I have discovered a new type. I call them “paid internet protesters,” or “PIPs” in internet-speak, who are all armchair culture warriors.
Dr. Rachel Lu, a senior contributor at The Federalist, wrote an article called, “The LGBT Movement Will Self-Destruct.” My response was titled, “The LGBT Movement Will Not Self-Destruct.”
Dr. Lu and I agree on one basic point: The ideology driving so much of today’s demands for radical social change is incoherent. We disagree on exactly what to conclude from this fact.
Plenty of fodder here for a pretty interesting discussion, don’t you think?
But, no. After a day or two, the site was swarming with people making rude, off-topic comments from accounts that disguised their identity with psydonyms.
Most importantly, they didn’t discuss anything. They called names and changed the subject. The subject is no longer the coherence or incoherence of the sexual revolution. The subject now is bigotry, my religion, my personal history and my appearance. Seriously.
Likewise, Lu’s original article has received more than 8,500 comments, few of which have anything to do with her point.
These people are commonly called “trolls.” I have an idea why they appear so regularly. And, I have an idea what to do about them.
The sexual revolution is built on an intellectual house of cards. It cannot withstand close scrutiny. Therefore, sexual revolutionaries cannot afford to discuss ideas, reasons and evidence. Instead they spend their time making noise that appears to be pointless.
But the noise has a very definite point. The Revolutionaries want to change the subject away from them and their illogically. Incidentally, thinking people want to leave the room, just to get away from the god-awful racket.
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