Esther van Fenema about online hate: I am called a ‘Nazi psychiatrist’, someone who ‘needs to be destroyed’ or ‘better off dead’

Just saying what you think is not without risks these days. Hate comments are almost standard, even when you post something completely normal. For example, a photo in a bikini on the beach. Then follow reactions such as: ‘you are too fat’, ‘you will get skin cancer’, ‘how can you enjoy the consequences of the climate crisis?’ Or: ‘Do you realize that there are people who cannot go to the beach at all?’ Social media have now become one big digital drain of frustration.

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