Le’Veon Bell kills Twitter trolls with kindness

Le’Veon Bell killed some Twitter trolls with kindness.

Le’Veon Bell went down with an injury in Week 8 against the Cincinnati Bengals. The following Monday Pittsburgh placed Bell on injured reserve as the running back prepared for season-ending surgery to repair his MCL and PCL.

You know what that means, right? Fantasy football players across the globe were in dire straits in Week 9, scrambling to fill in for their first round draft pick. Damn that, Le’Veon Bell and his papier-mache knees. How should we handle it? Like a bunch of savages hurling racial epithets and insults, of course.

At this point, there’s really not much more to say about people acting like neanderthals towards others on Twitter. Keyboard balls: it’s a real thing.

So here’s a question: At what point do people realize that the things they tweet/post/say online do not disappear on the Internet? It has to be soon, right? This isn’t an older demographic using the Twitter. It skews younger by the year. People that presumably read blogs like this one, who must surely know that there are content miners out there waiting to pounce on any idiotic statement.

There will and always be dumbfuckery in the world, but man, be smarter about it. Sucks for Bell and any other figure – public or not – to deal with this nonsense. Well played by the back to kill ’em with kindness.