I think this is where my concern comes.
It’s not just people being mean. It’s people being far meaner than they use to be, in my opinion. Over the past decade, debate has far too often completely abandoned any attempt at cross understanding. It goes from 1 to 10 so fast. People are either allies or pure evil. Good or bad. All nuance is gone.
Contrapoints could have been engaged with thoughtful dialogue about Angle. If anyone understands the nuance of being trans it’s her. I followed the whole thing real time. There was maybe 5% of this. 95% was vitriol, name calling, exaggeration, saying she was not better than anti-trans bigots etc. This happens too much.
We need to all try to assume the best of people when it’s warranted. So often it seems all our default is to assume the worst of everyone. Even people we are closely aligned with.
It really can be boiled down to we all need to be nicer.