> Being thoughtful, articulate, but well stated and polite is not considered kind, but "mean". According to who? Certainly not the article: It puts forward All

> Being thoughtful, articulate, but well stated and polite is not considered kind, but "mean". According to who? Certainly not the article: It puts forward Allen's comment as an example of being kind. > Any attempt to understand, evaluate or otherwise politely disagree is met by a mob of twitter accounts ready to call you a critical asshole and troll at every turn You could easily change your statement to "any attempt to do anything is met by a mob of twitter accounts ready to call you an asshole" and it would be just as true. I don't think twitter outrage is a good metric for anything, because it's extremely contradictory, arbitrary, and capricious.