When Honest = Douchebag, You’re Doing It Wrong.
I must admit, I’m rather disappointed that I’ve had to get to the point where I’ve experienced this phenomena enough that I am annoyed enough to write a blog post. If you’re at all familiar with how I blog then you’ll know: I don’t. Basically my blog is where I sporadically write about things that most people don’t give a shit about. Thus, I continue my time honored tradition.
Today’s Topic: Why some people think that “honesty” is a free pass to be an asshole, and how they are wrong.
Why do I care? For that matter, why should you? Perhaps you shouldn’t, and perhaps you don’t. This blog post is mostly an ego stroke for me (full disclosure). I want to elaborate on my opinions regarding this topic. If you don’t care, or if you are going to just bitch and moan about how you think that I’m wrong, don’t read the post. It’s a waste of both of your time and mine to pointlessly debate this.
Okay. Let’s get started.
The Keyboard Warrior
The internet has eradicated responsibility. People can say just about anything and have zero real life repercussions. This leads to an interesting excuse people make. For some reason Keyboard Warriors know that what they are saying is going to be considered “bad” by those of us who follow the rules of the social contract. So, rather than just following the same contract themselves, they put their bile under the guise of “honesty.”
I’m gonna say it right here. That’s bullshit.
Honesty is great. If somebody is going to make something up in order to not hurt my feelings, I’ll tell you, I’d rather they just be honest and risk hurting my feelings. I’m a programmer. If my code is messy, tell me! You won’t hurt me, my job is to write un-messy code. What does hurt me is telling me that my code rocks when it really sucks.
The Keyboard warrior is honest. I won’t ever say otherwise. But they’re also completely outside of the curve. Their honesty is anything but refreshing. The keyboard warrior does not say “hey man, your code is pretty messy. You may wanna check that out.” Instead, they say “Dude, what kind of retard are you? Your code looks like a fuckin’ five year old slammed on a keyboard for an hour. Jesus christ, I’m never recomending you to any potential clients.
:D”
For some reason, they seem to think that ending these little spews of assholeness with a smiley face makes everything alright. The “:D” is also replaceable with “just sayin” or “I’m only being honest to help you.”
No.
Just no.
Nobody wants to be insulted, and nobody wants to hear about how their work makes them look like an idiot. I can come to that conclusion on my own after hearing what the normal people say about it, thank you very much. Don’t for one minute think that the douchebag version of honesty is refreshing. It isn’t. It makes me angry.
Then, there is the KW who thinks that the whole world wants to hear about all the shitty things he does. You know who that is. He’s the guy who posts to twitter “I laugh when I read about people dying, children being raped and bad things you should not laugh at in general.” That’s a quote. Somebody actually tweeted that. They followed it up with “If I still follow you, you have earned the great price of awesome.” and “Yes, you may consider me a huge asshole, but at least I’m honest, compared to the rest of the fucking retards out there.”
I’m just not sure what to say about that. Honesty does not mean barfing up your fucked up “opinions” upon the rest of the world. Trust me when I say, nobody wants to read that shit. It’s gross. Saying that you’re only being honest doesn’t change the fact that you are one fucked up asshole.
Honesty is not a free ticket to just spew all the hateful ridiculous spite-filled rantings that you think we want to hear about.
One more thing: If somebody suggests you use a service, and you don’t like it, the only thing you need to say is “I don’t think I/we should use [that service].” You don’t need to write a three paragraph email detailing exactly why (the two emails from) that service is so horrible and how you “will be rejecting your request” to join. It’s unnecessary. It’s just a way of stroking your overlarge egorection. I read that email and translate “I don’t like what you want me to do, so instead of being mature about it I’m going to just write bullshit until I can get my overlarge self concept under control”.
I’m just sayin’
P.S. @JamesDraco brought up a good point. There are also enablers. Some people who are too cowardly to post their own “honest” bullshit, they instead applaud the Keyboard Warriors for their “honesty” and “integrity.” There is no integrity in being rude or offensive, and there is no point in telling people that they should keep it up. Don’t enable KWs
