It’s not exactly the same thing, but I’ve been known to try to explain my lack of outrage/engagement/joiner-ism when it comes to things like this, by saying: “I get why you disagree/why that’s awful/whatever, but really, I just can’t get that worked up just because somebody’s wrong on the internet.”
It’s a little disingenuous, because the issue isn’t really “someone being wrong on the internet”, but rather that folks feel that there’s something wrong in the world, as reflected by a third-party’s opinion. But since we all get our news and opinions delivered by internet these days, this has often (but far from always) worked to shift the topic for me.
To be fair, sometimes it shifts the topic to a meta-discussion about whether “the internet” (or specific media/social media apps) are “the problem”, but even that I find to be a more interesting (and less unhealthy) discussion than dancing around the picked-over carcass of some absent opponent’s opinion.
The snarkier response might be: “You disagree with someone on the internet? You should blog about it!” But that just piles on the negativity.
It’s not exactly the same thing, but I’ve been known to try to explain my lack of outrage/engagement/joiner-ism when it comes to things like this, by saying: “I get why you disagree/why that’s awful/whatever, but really, I just can’t get that worked up just because somebody’s wrong on the internet.”
It’s a little disingenuous, because the issue isn’t really “someone being wrong on the internet”, but rather that folks feel that there’s something wrong in the world, as reflected by a third-party’s opinion. But since we all get our news and opinions delivered by internet these days, this has often (but far from always) worked to shift the topic for me.
To be fair, sometimes it shifts the topic to a meta-discussion about whether “the internet” (or specific media/social media apps) are “the problem”, but even that I find to be a more interesting (and less unhealthy) discussion than dancing around the picked-over carcass of some absent opponent’s opinion.
The snarkier response might be: “You disagree with someone on the internet? You should blog about it!” But that just piles on the negativity.
Obviously, YMMV.