Do you know most every large nation has political propaganda units? China alone makes many university students do online work promoting their Emperor Xi. Their leaders felt threatened by students in universities after Tienanmen Square, so he has oppressed the kids to push hate and division online. We all know Russia’s been at the propaganda mills for a long time.
On the Internet, you never know who is arguing against you. Many Thousands of people are literally paid to argue online. They get a notification at their computer that their search bot has found a charged political term: An ism, a religion, a search term they’re watching. Then these people paid to argue will try and promote their country, party or corporate entity’s interest by a pithy insult to try and discredit you. I recommend not arguing back, you’re not getting paid to do so.
Proverbs 12:16When a fool is annoyed, he quickly lets it be known. Smart people will ignore an insult.
A lot of these insults and argument bait are not well thought out. When your job is to start arguments with as many people as possible, you don’t really start out elaborate. So a person might post an elaborate and well thought out good idea places, and an argument bot might insult it with nonsense that the idea covers. Then the guy with the good idea feels the need to argue back because he had a grand idea, and feels the one attacking his idea isn’t smart enough to get it. If they get into a drawn out argument though, both sides can look the fool. So avoid arguing with fools.
Don’t ever feel that you need to argue back anything. I’ve had lots of people take my words out of context to look bad. It is like the first animated Scooby Doo movie where Shaggy is going like,”If you didn’t like me, you’d probably edit what I said to say ‘Coolsville sucks'” Then the reporter actually does that and plays on the news Shaggy going,”Coolsville sucks.” People do that a lot online. They realize you will not respond to trolls, so they try and twist your words to mean things they obviously didn’t. They’re reasoning is,”If I can’t get this guy to respond, I’ll try and make him look like such a bad guy by twisting his words, that he’ll have to respond that what I am saying is wrong. Then I will reply again by twisting his words! By the time it is all over, I’ll have accused him of every evil thing, and he’ll look like a fool trying to defend himself against so many accusations.”
Remember, you don’t ever have to reply to anyone. Jesus didn’t even reply to the accusers going to crucify him at certain points. Jesus knew he was going to be crucified so maybe he didn’t even bother mincing word at places. Also it comes off as cool that you don’t have time for the haters. Don’t waste much time with arguments with haters who reject Jesus. Remember the original call to the apostles was that when rejected in one town, go to another. Just go witness to other people, and pray they find out about Jesus by someone. You don’t got to argue back.
Proverbs 12:18 Thoughtless words can wound as deeply as any sword, but wisely spoken words can heal.