The articles, “A Note on Call-Out Culture” by Asam Ahmad and “The Rise of Victimhood Culture” by Conor Friedersdorf, discuss various topics, but one of the topics that both articles mention is the idea of attention seeking during a controversial argument. People tend to state their opinions about a topic, and the majority of the time these opinions are offensive to the other side. Attention seeking is one of the various ways someone will get others to notice them. Attention seeking becomes a problem because people will use derogatory terms towards certain groups of people in order to receive some form of attention. Sometimes people gain attention by playing the victim in a situation, which can be a problem as well because they may not even actually be a victim. The two articles talk about how people seek attention by using social media as an outlet, not participating in dignity and honor cultures, and playing the victim.
“A Note on Call-Out Culture” by Asam Ahmad is about calling people out on social …show more content…
People want others to see them and they will do whatever it takes. Sometimes people will say something offensive and the immediate reaction for the person on the other side is tell them off in a way that may cause more problems, than the initial statement did. “… it is easy to forget that the individual we are calling out is a human being…” (Ahmad, Paragraph 3). This quote from “A Note on Call-Out Culture” shows that when someone is defending himself or herself, or a group they tend to get caught up in their emotions and say things that are harmful towards the other. For example, the Oberlin incident mentioned in “The Rise of Victimhood Culture.” In the Oberlin situation the two teenagers let their emotions take control of their responses. The confrontations between the two were also over email and were posted online for everyone to see. Thus, leading into dignity, honor, and victimhood
“A Note on Call-Out Culture” by Asam Ahmad is about calling people out on social …show more content…
People want others to see them and they will do whatever it takes. Sometimes people will say something offensive and the immediate reaction for the person on the other side is tell them off in a way that may cause more problems, than the initial statement did. “… it is easy to forget that the individual we are calling out is a human being…” (Ahmad, Paragraph 3). This quote from “A Note on Call-Out Culture” shows that when someone is defending himself or herself, or a group they tend to get caught up in their emotions and say things that are harmful towards the other. For example, the Oberlin incident mentioned in “The Rise of Victimhood Culture.” In the Oberlin situation the two teenagers let their emotions take control of their responses. The confrontations between the two were also over email and were posted online for everyone to see. Thus, leading into dignity, honor, and victimhood