Personal: The Polite Troll

We see these quite often, don't like to swear and claim the high ground by calling everyone a troll whom use some form of language.

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I've sworn plenty of times so I guess I'm a troll.   Is this the new terms for emotional non robot human beings who never make mistakes or react to life?   We are not machines.  We are not at liberty to hide our emotions and ignore our mistakes.  We can't hide from our successes or failures.  We are not machines.

Throughout history we have constantly had scientists, faith believers and even phyilosophus tell us we are human beings.  Tell us that unlike machines we have a choice, a self-awareness,  We can react badly or positively.  Even the most wisest people can react emotionally; again we are not machines.

So I'm going to talk about the new polite trolls.  They will carefully word their articles to bash very calmly the people who don't agree with them.   They often use quite big words to show how intellectual they are yet they seem to be lacking humanity in their approach.  Humanity is all sides of the pyramid. Not just one side of a coin - we are human beings.

They often act like we should calmly listen and also take it up the tailpipe that their opinion is fact.  A troll is a simple thing: someone that posts not to debate in anyway but to gain a reaction.  That's not someone who necessarily swears or ridicules.  I know I'm far from perfect and some of my posts can come across as a little whiny or angry.  Let's face it I am human and we all are. That's a fact with zero argument.

We see trolls often, they are the ones who will ridicule a disabled child behind a hidden profile.  They will tell someone to go commit suicide just because they dyed their hair.  They are not the ones who throw an emotional response or disagree with you.  Call it what you will, they are not trolls.

So next time you call someone a troll. Are you actually being the mature grown up one ? I don't think you are.  You're just simply sitting on a high horse and by constantly throwing the insult of troll you've become the very thing you claim to be against.  So congratulations. If you call someone a troll to gain a reaction.  That's just the same as a....   you got it TROLL.

This isn't actually about the "Polite Troll", I don't think these people are trolls at all.  There's only one type of troll and I've already described him.  You can word your tweets and the blogs in pages of fancy writing but it doesn't change what a troll is.  Otherwise you may find that we are all trolls.  Would you say a war hero is a troll because when I grew up I had a few nasty words shouted in my ear because of a German on TV.  So a man who was in WW2 swearing in real life not on Twitter is he a troll? No course not.  It's an emotional outburst, it was human.

What about the protests? Education ?

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What about the miner strikes? Are we calling them trolls after seeing their jobs and lively hoods torn to pieces with little to no notice.

Some trolls are  a bit like bullies but so are those who call out the trolls>  They claim they are interested in debates while they tell you politely you're wrong, they tell you they value your opinion while they tell you you're blocked, they tell you not to use language while calling you a troll.  As far as I am concerned calling someone a troll is also an emotional response similar to using the word jerk or you berk.

What's the difference between calling someone a jerk to a troll? Nothing, both are insults and if both hurt your feelings perhaps you need to grow a back bone because life is not going to protect your feelings.  If you find yourself easily insulted perhaps that's not society you need to look at but yourself.  I can speak from experience on this one; I learnt to have a backbone and to stand up for myself while others did nothing to help.

We've all had to deal with bullies at some stage and people who call out trolls are not much different.  There's those bullies who are actually intelligent, they know when to push you, what to say and when to randomly come right for you.  They push when no one is looking, say snarky comments while no one heard it and they know exactly what to say to get to you.  They are also like footballers when fouled, when you finally push back they roll over crying in pain as if you've just broken their leg when all you've done is one single nudge.  These people who call out trolls are no different,  You can't sit there calling people trolls all day and act like you are innocent. 

Perhaps you grew up always being baby cuddled by your mother, perhaps you was a spoilt child - who knows.  Hypocrite.

They can dish it for England but they have no backbone, hiding behind Twitter and social media.  The kind of person that won't ever be married unless he was lucky enough to find someone very like him.

We all know that person.  Can tell other people they are poor at their jobs but struggles to hear it back.  Hypocrite.

So next time you use the word troll; try and remember that they are one kind and only one.  They will tear your posts apart looking for anything they can get a reaction out of, even when they lose a debate they will revert to other subjects but their main focus will be one thing - to get a reaction.  They are not the ones who have emotional outbursts.  There's no such thing as the polite troll either, they are just simple people calling others trolls just to get one thing - a reaction.  So although I've named this post The Polite Troll - they are not real.  You are just an emotional human being responding.