In seminary I spoke with a female professor soon after a rage-bait article appeared about how women shouldn't teach in seminaries. She said she didn't take seriously the person in question and didn't pay him attention. Now, she operated from a place of privilege (tenure) that this internet fool couldn't touch, but I aspire to her level of unbothered. To just...live my life?...without being filled with rage every time an idiot opens a mouth? I learned a lot from her.
Deborah Lipstadt, a historian and diplomat, famously refuses to debate Holocaust deniers. She doesn't share her platform with anyone who operates on a different level of truthfulness than she does, and she doesn't cross-promote deniers. I think of her every time someone on the internet dunks on someone else by promoting their name (quote-tweeting or whatever). "Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him." (Proverbs 26:4)
Thank you for some good food for thought. Soaking ourselves in the good by sharing it is an important way to cultivate discernment (how can we know what's good if we only see it from the angle of what's bad?). I, for one, support your choice to not be a keyboard warrior but instead to be a keyboard gardener of your own little corner of the internet. It's pleasant here, and I like it.
Amy, your writing
is witty beyond measure
I laugh deep within.
In seminary I spoke with a female professor soon after a rage-bait article appeared about how women shouldn't teach in seminaries. She said she didn't take seriously the person in question and didn't pay him attention. Now, she operated from a place of privilege (tenure) that this internet fool couldn't touch, but I aspire to her level of unbothered. To just...live my life?...without being filled with rage every time an idiot opens a mouth? I learned a lot from her.
Deborah Lipstadt, a historian and diplomat, famously refuses to debate Holocaust deniers. She doesn't share her platform with anyone who operates on a different level of truthfulness than she does, and she doesn't cross-promote deniers. I think of her every time someone on the internet dunks on someone else by promoting their name (quote-tweeting or whatever). "Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him." (Proverbs 26:4)
Thank you for some good food for thought. Soaking ourselves in the good by sharing it is an important way to cultivate discernment (how can we know what's good if we only see it from the angle of what's bad?). I, for one, support your choice to not be a keyboard warrior but instead to be a keyboard gardener of your own little corner of the internet. It's pleasant here, and I like it.
A keyboard gardener instead of a keyboard warrior!! I love that! Is it a phrase of your own making, or a quote? May I use it?
I guess I just coined it, haha! You are welcome to use it! :) (No need for attribution)
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