RE: Were social justice warriors responsible for the election outcome?
November 15, 2016 at 4:07 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2016 at 4:08 pm by Aroura.)
Thanks to social media, everyone lives in an echo chamber no matter where you sit on the policital or social or economic spectrums.
It isn't recent that we cannot have productive conversations with "the other side", as people put it, it's just gotten more severe. The squeaky wheels get the oil, and the most clicks.
I personally, and completely, blame FB, Twitter, and the media in general for taking our division and amping it up 1000% just for headlines.
No one likes to hear they are wrong, and there is a real phenomenon where telling someone they are wrong (even kindly, no SJW assholery needed)), and even with a ton of evidence only causes them to double down on their position.
My solution is to get off FB, and stop reading clickbait news. And when you do read the news, check the sources, ESPECIALLY if the story is something you want to believe is true.
This election was fraught with hyperbolic disinformation, and once accepted, that kkind of disinformation is really, really hard to unlearn. The vast majority of people aren't interested in correcting themselves at all, so good luck "fixing" any of this.
It isn't recent that we cannot have productive conversations with "the other side", as people put it, it's just gotten more severe. The squeaky wheels get the oil, and the most clicks.
I personally, and completely, blame FB, Twitter, and the media in general for taking our division and amping it up 1000% just for headlines.
No one likes to hear they are wrong, and there is a real phenomenon where telling someone they are wrong (even kindly, no SJW assholery needed)), and even with a ton of evidence only causes them to double down on their position.
My solution is to get off FB, and stop reading clickbait news. And when you do read the news, check the sources, ESPECIALLY if the story is something you want to believe is true.
This election was fraught with hyperbolic disinformation, and once accepted, that kkind of disinformation is really, really hard to unlearn. The vast majority of people aren't interested in correcting themselves at all, so good luck "fixing" any of this.
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