Yes, You’re an A-Hole for Policing Spelling and Grammar on Social Media

Stop acting like a jerk online if you complain that social media is toxic because of toxic people, but you’re contributing to the problem.

Unpopular opinion: Yes, you are an asshole for policing spelling and grammar when you get pissed off because someone disagreed with you online. Yes, even if that person is as horrible as they come. Or wronger than wrong. You’re still an asshole.

When someone disagrees with you online, and you ignore the meat of what they are saying and go straight for their shitty punctuation — that makes you an asshole.

When someone makes a joke online, and you’re offended by it, instead of reaching out and having a private discussion to explain why the joke is problematic, you go straight for grammar and call the author an idiot. That makes you an asshole.

When you refuse to scroll on by a post you dislike so, you leave a condescending comment about spelling. That makes you an asshole.

When someone sends a tweet with zero punctuation and uses online slang for shortening words, and then you swoop in to tell them how uneducated they sound. That makes you an asshole.

When anyone — literally anyone — makes a political statement and you can’t fathom how to disagree respectfully or intelligently so, you go for grammar and spell checking in place of real…