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If you think this is crazy…I’ll show you an online troll who gets even worse than this
In 2008, a Carmel, Indiana, school bus driver, Betty Campbell, overheard little Rachel Zimmer saying that she couldn’t vote for presidential candidate Barak Obama because of his positions on abortion and gay marriage. That led to unsubstantiated allegations that she said that other students would go to Hell, which Zimmer strongly denies. When Campbell heard the allegations (again, unsubstantiated) she stopped the bus and delivered a politically correct sermon on tolerance to her captive audience, who probably just wanted to go home and play Xbox before their moms and dads came home. The security camera caught it all on tape, including Campbell’s conversations with another student. She probed this student for racist allegations, threatening to “eat Zimmer alive” and calling her “a stupid little bigot”. It gets worse. After dropping Zimmer at home, Campbell completed her route and then RETURNED to the Zimmer home, ordering Zimmer and her sister back into the EMPTY school bus (without parental knowledge or consent) for more browbeating. She again lectured Zimmer about her opinions on gay marriage and reduced the girl to tears. After seeing the tape, Zimmer’s parents went ballistic, saying: “That’s not someone looking out for someone. That’s someone out to get somebody.” Carmel Clay Schools refused to fire or even discipline Campbell, stating that she was working within “the scope of her employment.” The family has since filed a civil lawsuit.
Point being…people have opinions. Sometimes, their opinions are different from yours. Sometimes, when people disagree with you, it makes you mad. You want to call them horrible, vulgar names, and rip apart their character (even though they are complete strangers). In the end, however, although you might feel better about making yourself look like a giant ass, I doubt screaming, lecturing, cursing, and degrading someone who disagrees with you will change THEIR opinion; and it’s only going to lead to brain atrophy for you. Science proves that stress (which includes getting mad because someone disagreed with you and especially if someone is a COMPLETE AND TOTAL STRANGER ON THE INTERNET) leads to quicker atrophy of the brain. In layman’s terms, the angrier you are, the faster you careen into being an honestly stupid troll. Science don’t lie.