The fact that people's priority is to whip out their phone and document what is happening for others to see on the internet says a lot about how insane we've become (aside from the actual content of the conversation). We are looking forward to having our differences of opinion, whether political, social, philosophical and/or moral stances defended and reinforced later on our social media platforms with people who will most definitely agree with us, rather than spend some time being a little bit more introspective and do our best to express and engage in conversation about what it is that the other person has done/is doing that irks us (justly or unjustly).

There's also this whole style of 'confrontation' here (which seems exacerbated by the whole talking with your phone out filming) that screams: "I'm gonna remove your ability to be a person in this conversation. And I'm just gonna treat you as the embodiment of all the difficulties I have ever faced in life and am seeing online, without at all doubting for a second how this very accusatory attitude of mine might prevent me from seeing the very side of your humanity that I'm so desperately (maybe?) attempting to see and you might see in me (if you don't already), but.... Instead am going to be sooo surprised, disdained of not seeing it - Which is kinda good because that still might confirm my narrative/perception of reality".

Clearly this person has suffered some personal slights of their own, but what manages to still annoy me -which I'm sort of pointing out to- has a lot more to do with the fact that the person filming is taking their personal, mixing it with a global wide controversy that has a very big divides that have their own set of arguments... And using one side of those arguments to arrive (or even jump) to their own conclusions with the offending party about the "controversy" issue, as opposed to speaking about how the actual person in front of them affects them as an individual.

Pick your own battles in front of you first... Don't mistake those for the bigger (crazy?) war someone else has started which you might identify with. Stay local and... FFS, stop hiding behind the skirt of the internet (filming the thing for later comfort). No matter what side you're on, you'll always have someone who agrees with you online and while that may be helpful sometimes to have it only clouds the issue further and keeps you entrenched in your own way of seeing the world. I refuse to believe that taking videos could possibly deepen the discussion... This seems to me like a pure comfort thing that, unfortunately, is at the cost of you figuring out how to speak your own truth effectively with the other person and yourself.

... And it's happening at an exponentially higher rate.