The Name-Calling, Slandering, and our sense of Morality

[kakaballi]

Re: The Name-Calling, Slandering, and our sense of Morality

@phoenixdesi

i see a strong connection between name-calling/personal attacks on political personalities and dirt fights among posters…in my experience, that is how these toxic fights begin on political forums…what happened in maryam nawaz thread can easily translate into a full fledged war among posters…

I revisited the thread. No war going on. As for people calling her names, AP uncle is also there complaining that posters are being too respectful to her because she belongs to Lahore. That’s what I mean when I say you cannot draw a line like that.

She deserves some of the vitriol. She is not elected or experienced but heading several government initiatives without being qualified for any of them. She wants to head national health insurance despite being unable to complete her MBBS after being illegally admitted into a medical college. You want us not to criticize her a bit? Can’t I take out my frustrations verbally on this princess? Ask someone who spends half the day in the heat without electricity about these politicians and he’ll have some colorful words for you.

@phoenixdesi

i used to be a mod myself and i know how hard this job is and i have a lot of respect for these mods…i just reflected upon some trends that i have observed in last few years…plus if you read my post carefully, you may see that in addition to mods, I also questioned PTI posters that if they are so sensitive to criticism on IK which is more often done in political context, they should some respect to other political leaders as well.

Why make this a PTI centric thread again? IK is the most criticized political person on these forums. Please get a count of threads and posts criticizing him vis-a-vis other politicians. Why expect the PTI posters not to react?

Just a recent example: http://www.paklinks.com/gs/pakistan-affairs/642464-inqilaabs-of-pakistan.html

The article actually talks about almost every significant political leader but the OP chose to mention only one just to get inflammatory discussion. Same is the case with mainstream online media. You get more clicks if you criticize IK. Not because the PTI followers are more sensitive about IK, but just because most of the people with internet access and ability to read English liked PTI for one reason or another. When you troll, you get reactions.