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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Megan McArdle: The Covington students failed to act like grown-ups. So did the adults.
As a young(ish) blogger, I learned, the hard way, that one should never go full-frontal jerk on the internet. Partly because one should generally eschew jerkhood. And partly because of what happens if facts later prove your initial response was mistaken. After you’ve been lobbing flaming insults from the moral high ground, any subsequent climbdown is humiliating. Frequently, people are tempted to cling to their increasingly untenable position, which only extends the period during which they look like utter fools.
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Megan McArdle: The Covington students failed to act like grown-ups. So did the adults.
As a young(ish) blogger, I learned, the hard way, that one should never go full-frontal jerk on the internet. Partly because one should generally eschew jerkhood. And partly because of what happens if facts later prove your initial response was mistaken. After you’ve been lobbing flaming insults from the moral high ground, any subsequent climbdown is humiliating. Frequently, people are tempted to cling to their increasingly untenable position, which only extends the period during which they look like utter fools.
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