Word. It’s so important to remember that you should be thinking about educating and changing minds in the unseen audience, not just or even primarily the person you’re debating/arguing/cussing out.

A lot of the “bullying”, if it’s working at all, is saying to the audience “no, this lib really is a monster normalizing monstrous things and you don’t have to accept this behavior as normal or civil. You can and should loudly and violently reject these norms, and you’re not alone in doing so.”