because two men can't hug without being called homosexual anymore
That snide always existed. it's just been given a political twist now. A friendly banter of calling each other gay is nothing, it only turned bad when people mushed it with real acts of harassment of closet gays.
It's difficult to put in words what exactly is harassment or just friendly jest. If it's a form of bullying or taunting by strangers who are not your friends then yes it needs to be brought to attention. But in a close knit group, where you know they don't intend bad then it's not for the public to put it on stake for judgement.
This is where both the sides go wrong. One side just shows the harassments and call for more action...the other side show the misuse of this cause in otherwise unneeded situations.
No side is right or wrong. They are just plain stupid and full of ego to accept the existence of others' reality and theirs at the same time. It's either fully this or fully that, never both to some degree and something else all together.
This is only solved when social maturity is reached over generations. This global rant stations that we call social media is completely new to our species, we are like monkeys with guns, no perception of what our actions entail just fully absorbed in the current adrenaline rush.
This was so in the olden days of wars waged by every new ruler, when bloodshed was so common people didn't realise what they were doing for their species. Only when modern society awoke to the threat of nuclear war, only when science showed the fruits of logic and rationality, did we realise war is bad. Now we play proxy wars, shadow conflicts beyond the eyes of "public" to prevent sparks litting the whole keg. We deny the existence of conflicts, we play double roles of condemning military actions while at the same time funding them from behind. We wage war...in a very matured way (compared to before)
Give social media a couple more decades and we'll see the maturation of several issues, the right/left, this or that will grow both more distinct and homogenous. We'll know what it is to be done for most of interactions online/global across cultures and borders.
It might come at the cost of the freedom we have today in the online space. It will be a whole lot more regulated. Yet at the same time bigger, and more intrinsic to our society. One major change might be that anonymity is stripped fully, which actually doesn't exist anyway but then the few who knew to swim the oceans hunting anyone they wished for will be lot less powerful than now. Sure the dark underbelly isn't going anywhere, might as well be bigger and twisted then now but for the general public the internet will be lot more real and genuine to their actual face to face interactions.
