AIBU .. to hate #BeKind?

[ImJustMadAboutSaffron]

If it wasn't for poor Caroline Flack, nobody would be trotting out this hackneyed put down, because that is what it has become. It's used to stifle alternative viewpoints, constructive criticism and healthy debate.

Whilst nobody should be insulting anyone in personal terms online or on any forums, discussion boards are just that. I don't want to be told to #BeKind (which amounts to #ShutYerTrap) when, for example, I say on a Dancing on Ice thread elsewhere that Sally from Corrie is the weakest skater.

It's also very lazy, used when people don't have a rational argument and want to seem superior.

#BeKind with your comments ...

I completely agree.

I find it's another way to make money. I'm generally disappointed in 'in the style' for this. Charging extraordinary prices for a 'be kind' hoody.

Hate it and where it came from. If a bloke hit his partner with lamp and said be kind...would everyone say it? Nope, we'd want him strung from a lamppost. Domestic abuse from either gender is wrong and a stupid saying just makes it even worse. Agree as above it's the way to shut down an argument when you have nothing intelligent to say.

I notice it's used most frequently when someone dares to post a slightly critical comment about an Insta influencer. Along the lines of I don't really like the way X is promoting over-use of single use plastic, reply: X loves the environment, don't say anything at all if you can't #bekind.

Yes, I see this a lot. An influencer was recently outed as a massive racist and there was a lot of #bekind because she happens to have had a baby in the last year. No thanks.

Be kind......yes it usually means be kind to someone who is behaving like an absolute arse

@superplumb

Hate it and where it came from. If a bloke hit his partner with lamp and said be kind...would everyone say it? Nope, we'd want him strung from a lamppost. Domestic abuse from either gender is wrong and a stupid saying just makes it even worse. Agree as above it's the way to shut down an argument when you have nothing intelligent to say.

If Caroline was still alive, nobody would be saying it and certainly not hashtagging it.