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> Your parents deserve credit here for that great response.

Well, half a great response

No way I would tell my kids to take up with some a-hole online that is more interested in trolling than anything else

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> No way I would tell my kids to take up with some a-hole online

That was my first instinct as well. But thinking about it, the second interaction seems to have solidified to him that the person didn't have any actual argument against his participation, that it was just an asshat being unpleasant.

What's the inverse of rose-colored glasses? Looking at the past through the lens of today? That's kinda what this comment suggests. The internet of the 90s was much safer than the internet of today is.

This has nothing to do with internet. There were assholes long before the internet who would bully whoever looks weaker. They would do it in person, on meetings, in friends group, against students if they were teachers, against waiters and other service staff. This guy definitely seems like one.

Plus, that assessment turned out right.

I think it was necessary to build resilience, so it doesn’t affect you in a worse way when you are an adult

Imo, teaching kids to assert healthy boundaries is better then teaching them to accept being insulted or doormats.

I don't know that trolling was what it is now; I don't remember trolls so much in those years (mid 90s-early 00s for me), and they might have just thought that this person could be reasoned with, though depending on how old my children were, I'd certainly be keeping an eye on that conversation.

Oh, there was no shortage of troll those days…

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