Here is what passes for discourse in the 21st Century:

  1. Find something on the Internet that you feel strongly about;
  2. Distort the author's meaning so as to make the author look stupid, ignorant, or vicious (call this the Principle of Anti-Charity in Interpretation);
  3. Try to get the author fired (thereby signaling one's virtue and power).

It would be funny if it weren't so sad.