A long time ago, I wrote an op-ed in the Globe and Mail that caused a lot of people, including many who should know better, to say a lot of very hostile, very dumb things on social media. One of those people was Amira Elghawaby, who quoted a single sentence from the op-ed and declared “I’m going to puke.” Several people, mainly Norman Spector (and now Jean-François Lisée), have been making her life somewhat miserable ever since, by reminding everyone about this foolish tweet whenever she gets promoted.
I have somewhat mixed feelings about this whole situation. On the one hand, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who shoot their mouths off on Twitter, or who abuse me on social media but don’t have the courage to write me an email. On the other hand, I feel a wee bit of sympathy for Elghawaby, because I suspect that, like most critics of my op-ed, she hadn’t read it very carefully when she fired off the tweet.… Continue reading
Published on January 31, 2023 13:38