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Perfect Storm’s Comin’

John E. Price
1 min readAug 16, 2017

I hope I’m wrong.

On one side we have people who believe speech is violence, some speech is not protected by the Constitution, and a physical response is justified. They want attention and violence.

The other side takes trolling tactics into the real world, begging and taunting for their opposition to punch first because they know they have political protection at the highest levels. They want attention and violence.

Meanwhile, keyboard activists have adopted doxxing as a valid form of vigilante justice, tearing down the walls between public and private life, and violating the social contract. They want attention and violence.

The result isn’t hard to see…

No fate but what we make.

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John E. Price
John E. Price

Written by John E. Price

Academic and Trekkie. I talk about the politics of culture, review nerd stuff, and golf a lot. Co-host: @podmeandering, #TopFive, @folkwise13

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