http://www.indianexpress.com/news/all-atwitter/1054233/0
Rage is good when it gets you to go out and deal with what you have a problem with.Somewhere our collective rage is going out of control. In the guise of rage and outrage — Twitter's favourite currency — we are in danger of becoming a nation of lynch mobs. We are on the lookout for a soft target and once we spot it, we take out all our pent up rage on him/her. This is what I feel has happened with the recent case of Punjabi bhangra rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh
We are getting caught up in a kind of elitism — intellectual, moral and even at the level of individual conscience — where some people, mostly on Twitter, deem themselves intellectually or morally superior to decide what is good or bad for a majority of us.
And let's not fool ourselves — Twitter won't bring the change.
Rage is good when it gets you to go out and deal with what you have a problem with.Somewhere our collective rage is going out of control. In the guise of rage and outrage — Twitter's favourite currency — we are in danger of becoming a nation of lynch mobs. We are on the lookout for a soft target and once we spot it, we take out all our pent up rage on him/her. This is what I feel has happened with the recent case of Punjabi bhangra rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh
We are getting caught up in a kind of elitism — intellectual, moral and even at the level of individual conscience — where some people, mostly on Twitter, deem themselves intellectually or morally superior to decide what is good or bad for a majority of us.
And let's not fool ourselves — Twitter won't bring the change.
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