i think this idea that everyone must think the way i think is really damaging because we didn't grow up with the same environment or the same teachers or the same anything and our experience of the world could be entirely different. If we can understand a little bit more why if someone is being the way they are then maybe we can communicate betterYeah it's scary to say these things in a time of massive kind of unrest in the world um but just like extending that empathy just a tiny bit every day could change everything. I'm not okay either, so don't judge somebody on their worst day when they happen to have landed online out of sheer agitation you know. It's fine to block those people
Emma Gannon is a true digital native, a storyteller who finds creative inspiration in online communities, and who has sought a more thoughtful way to be in the digital spaces that so dominate our lives.
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