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Intellectual bullying

Consider the climate created in blogs and twitter when users blast each other’s ideas and put writers down with sneering, sarcastic snips. Negative comments and sniping tweets fuel a competitive duel of intellectual one-upmanship. It isn’t pretty.
It’s toxic.
I’m immersed in social media — facebook, twitter, plurk — and the exchange of ideas often generates lively [...]