| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:45 - Sep 5 with 2205 views | victorywilhappen |
Tbh, she wasn't on my radar.
Are you an X devotee? Sometimes it's difficult to read this about something that is part of your everyday life and kick the messenger or journo. Not saying this is the case.
The sentiment and questioning of the use of the platform for multiple reasons resonated which is why I shared it. |  | |  |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:45 - Sep 5 with 2198 views | Guthrum |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 09:27 - Sep 5 by victorywilhappen |
I don't think there is more
"How did humanity get so racist, misogynist and full of hatred'
I do think more people critically think and analyse information but also there is so much more consumption of information and because of this attention is stretched and short easy answers ( and headlines) try to cut thru the noise and are often used as answers or rationale. It is what it is must be the modern phrase that sums up not wanting to engage any deeper than the superficial. |
I'm not sure that more people are critically analysing information.
They are not really taught how to, or even that it is necessary. Schools are for passing exams, not activating the brain (this is an educational policy complaint, no slight on teachers). This at a time when the flow of available information has become a flood.
Years ago, people might buy a newspaper, watch or listen to one or two editions of news broadcasts, maybe read a book. That was their daily consumption. Now there is a constant, demanding feed on your phone, a vast number of media outlets all pushing content. An overwhelming stream of material there isn't the time to fact-check all of. All the while (and this was the case historically with cinema, too) a vast sea of entertainment demanding to be consumed. People spending more time emoting than thinking. |  |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:46 - Sep 5 with 2196 views | baxterbasics |
It's just shining a light on all humanity and it's darkness, as well as the positives too.
You choose what you follow and engage with. Be your own filter.
I'd much rather choose what communication I have access to myself without any government or corporation deciding for me.
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:49 - Sep 5 with 2175 views | lowhouseblue |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:35 - Sep 5 by Guthrum |
Indeed. I was retaining the rhetorical form of the original headlne to contrast between "X" and "humanity".
I also think it comes and goes in waves. There is currently an upswell in the use of bigotry as a political tool. Remains to be seen whether this is the last hurrah of older thought forms, or if it gains any real, lasting traction (e.g. the popularity of Trump among young men in the US). |
"There is currently an upswell in the use of bigotry as a political tool"
but compared to when? the 1970s and 80s when we had enoch and the nf? the 2000s when we had the 'hostile environment'? the previous centuries when politicians and the church etc opposed gay marriage and legal equality for gays? thousands of years when women were treated as second class citizens? the last few years have actually seen 'me too' and 'black lives matter' - with even more prominent attention to equal rights and protection from unfair treatment.
is it that bigotry is being 'used' more or is it that social media amplifies a small number of voices that do use it? is it that bigotry is being 'used' more or is it that liberal people have got into the habit of labelling a wider range of things that they disagree with as 'bigotry' (that use of derogatory labels also being something that social media has promoted). social media amplifies extreme views and in so doing it's also very good at creating political dragons for right thinking people to slay. |  |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:50 - Sep 5 with 2159 views | J2BLUE |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:45 - Sep 5 by victorywilhappen |
Tbh, she wasn't on my radar.
Are you an X devotee? Sometimes it's difficult to read this about something that is part of your everyday life and kick the messenger or journo. Not saying this is the case.
The sentiment and questioning of the use of the platform for multiple reasons resonated which is why I shared it. |
I strongly dislike both X and Elon Musk. |  |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:50 - Sep 5 with 2148 views | FromReuserWithLove |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 06:44 - Sep 5 by Buhrer |
Farting on a newspaper article (without any analysis even), is just zombie behaviour.
It's understood now you read the grain, and have legitimate ethical concerns about that nasty x. Basically you're just regurgitating one side of the latest culture war crap.
The way they make people care about this bobbins which is really actually very disassociated with people's real lives and needs... is they get you to share it among yourselves. |
Crikey! on the flip side you've really bought into that narrative Musk, Tate and the like have pushed on to you. Real zombie evangelist behaviour. Yikes. |  | | |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:51 - Sep 5 with 2150 views | victorywilhappen |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:46 - Sep 5 by baxterbasics |
It's just shining a light on all humanity and it's darkness, as well as the positives too.
You choose what you follow and engage with. Be your own filter.
I'd much rather choose what communication I have access to myself without any government or corporation deciding for me.
#teamElon |
Not all stains ( from pollution or the dripping of toxins) can be avoided.
For the young and impressionable they can be harder to wash away or not encounter without the skills acquired with age, education, manners or good hygiene. | | | |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:52 - Sep 5 with 2142 views | itfcjoe |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:46 - Sep 5 by baxterbasics |
It's just shining a light on all humanity and it's darkness, as well as the positives too.
You choose what you follow and engage with. Be your own filter.
I'd much rather choose what communication I have access to myself without any government or corporation deciding for me.
#teamElon |
But a corporation is deciding, Twitter is pushing things, every respone to any comment even on a more curated feed is from blue tick bots |  |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:53 - Sep 5 with 2116 views | victorywilhappen |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:50 - Sep 5 by J2BLUE |
I strongly dislike both X and Elon Musk. |
Yep- both are strange. I wonder how they will look in 10 years. | | | |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:56 - Sep 5 with 2064 views | FromReuserWithLove |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:52 - Sep 5 by itfcjoe |
But a corporation is deciding, Twitter is pushing things, every respone to any comment even on a more curated feed is from blue tick bots |
Exactly this. I only followed football and nonsense comedy accounts but was constantly pushed right wing agenda about immigration etc (especially on the lead up to election). Those who see that issue are sitting on that side of the fence i guess. | | | |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 11:07 - Sep 5 with 1977 views | JakeITFC |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 09:03 - Sep 5 by Guthrum |
Not read the article, but the problem with this kind of headline is that the same can be - and has been - said about the internet as a whole, books, TV, newspapers music and every other sort of wide-circulation media. There will always be an element, often a noisy one, of extreme and/or offensive material. But the vast bulk of content is mundane. Bland, even.
The same with X. Most of it is just people Tweeting about their daily lives, self-publishing ordinary stuff or information about on-going events. Or it can be a conduit to get word out of information-restricted parts of the world, e.g. war zones, or places under oppressive regimes. Or to highlight abuses.
But, as always, there will be a (quite small) element of the less pleasant, or deliberately provocative, making noise. Noise which is accentuated by a polarised and febrile political atmosphere. This perception not helped by the antics of Musk himself.
The real question is "How did humanity get so racist, misogynist and full of hatred?"
The answer partly being in the other of those four words - lies and people's willingness to unquestioningly consume them. Often because they don't get taught how to appraise and avoid them. The rest of it is about fear and human nature's desire to be part of a group (with implied exclusion of "others"). |
I think this is true to an extent, but the internet is a different place to the one that most of this board would have grown up with or learnt to use.
Back in the days the internet had plenty of niches - some of them good (Ipswich Town messageboards) some of them bad (racism/misogyny/lies etc.) and there was reward for finding your place (hence the success of TWTD for 20+ years).
I think that version of the internet is now marginalised - for a generation of kids now, the internet is apps (X, Instagram, tik tok) and therefore it is important how they are managed and curated. These apps are algorithmic and are providing two things - more of what people want to see and more of what the site wants them to see. This is much more dangerous than a niche corner of the internet having these conspiracies or the like because it slips into the mainstream. Like Joe mentioned above, my Twitter was once a well curated collection of things that were of interest to me (with barely any politics at all) and now I login and get bombarded with anti-immigrant rhetoric, right wing conspiracy and porn bots. Given that Twitter had cemented itself as a go to place for real-time updates about important things, that is a really dangerous switch. |  | | |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 11:16 - Sep 5 with 1923 views | Guthrum |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:49 - Sep 5 by lowhouseblue |
"There is currently an upswell in the use of bigotry as a political tool"
but compared to when? the 1970s and 80s when we had enoch and the nf? the 2000s when we had the 'hostile environment'? the previous centuries when politicians and the church etc opposed gay marriage and legal equality for gays? thousands of years when women were treated as second class citizens? the last few years have actually seen 'me too' and 'black lives matter' - with even more prominent attention to equal rights and protection from unfair treatment.
is it that bigotry is being 'used' more or is it that social media amplifies a small number of voices that do use it? is it that bigotry is being 'used' more or is it that liberal people have got into the habit of labelling a wider range of things that they disagree with as 'bigotry' (that use of derogatory labels also being something that social media has promoted). social media amplifies extreme views and in so doing it's also very good at creating political dragons for right thinking people to slay. |
The waves are closer together than that. The current situation is a reaction to Me Too and BLM, much as the Hostile Environment was a reaction to the EU integration, the 1970s NF to the liberal mood of the late '60s and Powell to welcoming in workers from the Caribbean.
Yes, it is being used more. 20 years ago, Trump's rhetoric - or Lee Anderson's - would have been considered wild and unacceptable. George W Bush was spoken of as a hardliner.
I agree that there is also a rise in (often vicarious) "over-offendedness". Polarisation isn't a one-sided problem. | |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 11:17 - Sep 5 with 1923 views | nodge_blue |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 09:03 - Sep 5 by Guthrum |
Not read the article, but the problem with this kind of headline is that the same can be - and has been - said about the internet as a whole, books, TV, newspapers music and every other sort of wide-circulation media. There will always be an element, often a noisy one, of extreme and/or offensive material. But the vast bulk of content is mundane. Bland, even.
The same with X. Most of it is just people Tweeting about their daily lives, self-publishing ordinary stuff or information about on-going events. Or it can be a conduit to get word out of information-restricted parts of the world, e.g. war zones, or places under oppressive regimes. Or to highlight abuses.
But, as always, there will be a (quite small) element of the less pleasant, or deliberately provocative, making noise. Noise which is accentuated by a polarised and febrile political atmosphere. This perception not helped by the antics of Musk himself.
The real question is "How did humanity get so racist, misogynist and full of hatred?"
The answer partly being in the other of those four words - lies and people's willingness to unquestioningly consume them. Often because they don't get taught how to appraise and avoid them. The rest of it is about fear and human nature's desire to be part of a group (with implied exclusion of "others"). |
The real question is "How did humanity get so racist, misogynist and full of hatred?"
Id actually argue that it hasn't. It's become far less. Humans have been brutal, tribal and blood thirsty throughout history. That doesn't wash away easily from our nature, but throughout the 20th century and onto this there has been a turn towards more tolerance, peace and welcoming of diversity.
But its not going to be universal. |  |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 11:19 - Sep 5 with 1917 views | baxterbasics |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:52 - Sep 5 by itfcjoe |
But a corporation is deciding, Twitter is pushing things, every respone to any comment even on a more curated feed is from blue tick bots |
It's not perfect. The blue-tick bots thing does pee me off. But those are an annoyance rather than a threat to anyone's well being.
I understand the algorithm will just amplify whatever you have engaged with, even if you did so critically. So if you respond to Tommy Robinson to tell him he's a bellend, you might still end up seeing more of his content.
I follow a variety of content on there, left wing and right wing accounts and everything in between. From the likes of Owen Jones and Ash Sarkar to the Jordan Petersons and Douglas Murrays. I don't see one side being promoted over any other and I don't get the rush to silence opposing voices. I do think 'old Twitter' was too quick to ban or restrict accounts, and it led to 'report-wars' with opposing sides working to shut the other up en-masse. This is not the way.
And when I see politicians and governments saying they want to regulate or restrict online platforms, I get very very wary. They shouldn't have that power. | |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 11:20 - Sep 5 with 1916 views | Guthrum |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 11:07 - Sep 5 by JakeITFC |
I think this is true to an extent, but the internet is a different place to the one that most of this board would have grown up with or learnt to use.
Back in the days the internet had plenty of niches - some of them good (Ipswich Town messageboards) some of them bad (racism/misogyny/lies etc.) and there was reward for finding your place (hence the success of TWTD for 20+ years).
I think that version of the internet is now marginalised - for a generation of kids now, the internet is apps (X, Instagram, tik tok) and therefore it is important how they are managed and curated. These apps are algorithmic and are providing two things - more of what people want to see and more of what the site wants them to see. This is much more dangerous than a niche corner of the internet having these conspiracies or the like because it slips into the mainstream. Like Joe mentioned above, my Twitter was once a well curated collection of things that were of interest to me (with barely any politics at all) and now I login and get bombarded with anti-immigrant rhetoric, right wing conspiracy and porn bots. Given that Twitter had cemented itself as a go to place for real-time updates about important things, that is a really dangerous switch. |
You and Phil make a good point that the curation of X (and Facebook) is a problem when someone like Musk is driving the process.
I haven't really experienced the current reality of that, not being active on either of those platforms recently. | |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 11:25 - Sep 5 with 1880 views | Guthrum |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:53 - Sep 5 by victorywilhappen |
Yep- both are strange. I wonder how they will look in 10 years. |
X may well not exist in 10 years. Less because of the short shelf-life of many internet institutions, more because Musk will eventually succeed in trashing it utterly.
The ban in Brazil is perhaps only a beginning.
Musk will be re-enacting the Roanoke Colony on Mars. | |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 12:06 - Sep 5 with 1817 views | lowhouseblue |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 11:16 - Sep 5 by Guthrum |
The waves are closer together than that. The current situation is a reaction to Me Too and BLM, much as the Hostile Environment was a reaction to the EU integration, the 1970s NF to the liberal mood of the late '60s and Powell to welcoming in workers from the Caribbean.
Yes, it is being used more. 20 years ago, Trump's rhetoric - or Lee Anderson's - would have been considered wild and unacceptable. George W Bush was spoken of as a hardliner.
I agree that there is also a rise in (often vicarious) "over-offendedness". Polarisation isn't a one-sided problem. |
would lee anderson's rhetoric have been wild and unacceptable in the tory party 20 years ago? the swearing definitely, the crudity of expression yes, but the actual ideas about mass immigration, crime, capital punishment etc would not have been that unusual. 40 years ago many of his views would have been standard amongst trade unionists. i do think part of what is going on a shrinking of the range of political opinion which is portrayed as acceptable - and the notion of there being an increased wave of bigotry relies on that narrowing of the main stream and a bit of rewriting of history to justify it. i don't like or agree with lee anderson - but our parliamentary and mainstream politics has always included views such as his.
trump i agree is quite different because he rejects any notion of honesty or responsibility and i can't really think of a democracy which has tolerated that behaviour from a prominent politician. | |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 12:20 - Sep 5 with 1762 views | giant_stow |
I was just starting to enjoy it, when it stopped. A bit frustrating. |  |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 13:24 - Sep 5 with 1626 views | Ryorry |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 10:52 - Sep 5 by itfcjoe |
But a corporation is deciding, Twitter is pushing things, every respone to any comment even on a more curated feed is from blue tick bots |
"every respone to any comment even on a more curated feed is from blue tick bots".
Sorry but that's just not true in my experience (Twitter account for 12 years, about 45K tweets over the years to/from about 2K followers/following). In fact I can't remember ever having had an unsolicited comment from a blue tick bot.
As I've said previously on the subject - Twitter/X is what you make of it -
Only follow good people.
Only allow good people to follow you.
Always opt for 'following', never 'for you'.
Don't click onto hashtags on controversial topics unless you're prepared to blow your gaskets, waste hours, & become extremely stressed.
Apply the 'mute' and 'block' facilities liberally.
I've found that it's perfectly possible to block Musk on his own platform & still continue using the platform as you did before (am surprised he allows this though!). |  |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 13:34 - Sep 5 with 1614 views | eireblue |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 11:16 - Sep 5 by Guthrum |
The waves are closer together than that. The current situation is a reaction to Me Too and BLM, much as the Hostile Environment was a reaction to the EU integration, the 1970s NF to the liberal mood of the late '60s and Powell to welcoming in workers from the Caribbean.
Yes, it is being used more. 20 years ago, Trump's rhetoric - or Lee Anderson's - would have been considered wild and unacceptable. George W Bush was spoken of as a hardliner.
I agree that there is also a rise in (often vicarious) "over-offendedness". Polarisation isn't a one-sided problem. |
“ Polarisation isn't a one-sided problem.”
Hmmm, are you saying there are two views on polarisation…. |  | | |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 14:22 - Sep 5 with 1521 views | itfcjoe |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 13:24 - Sep 5 by Ryorry |
"every respone to any comment even on a more curated feed is from blue tick bots".
Sorry but that's just not true in my experience (Twitter account for 12 years, about 45K tweets over the years to/from about 2K followers/following). In fact I can't remember ever having had an unsolicited comment from a blue tick bot.
As I've said previously on the subject - Twitter/X is what you make of it -
Only follow good people.
Only allow good people to follow you.
Always opt for 'following', never 'for you'.
Don't click onto hashtags on controversial topics unless you're prepared to blow your gaskets, waste hours, & become extremely stressed.
Apply the 'mute' and 'block' facilities liberally.
I've found that it's perfectly possible to block Musk on his own platform & still continue using the platform as you did before (am surprised he allows this though!). |
I have done all those things you say, and it happens all the time but I'm mostly talking about tweets from well followed accounts - whilst previously someone would tweet something and those with verified accounts would be the first few comments, or replies from those you follow that just isn't the case now because people pay to jump up the feed.
As an example, on the latest tweets from Ipswich Town.
One of 3 responses to the womens fixture this weekend
One of 3 responses to tweet about Cam Burgess starting on the bench today for Oz
The top 2 responses to news of David Rose dying - people who are replying and RTing about conspiracy nonsense, ranked above people I both follow and who follow me
Top tweets below Cam Burgess going on international duty
And we are a minor account, on larger followed accounts its dozens and dozens of rubbish tweets like that from blue tick accounts, it's an awful user experience compared to what it was with people buying their position on your feed | |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 17:17 - Sep 5 with 1376 views | Ryorry |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 14:22 - Sep 5 by itfcjoe |
I have done all those things you say, and it happens all the time but I'm mostly talking about tweets from well followed accounts - whilst previously someone would tweet something and those with verified accounts would be the first few comments, or replies from those you follow that just isn't the case now because people pay to jump up the feed.
As an example, on the latest tweets from Ipswich Town.
One of 3 responses to the womens fixture this weekend
One of 3 responses to tweet about Cam Burgess starting on the bench today for Oz
The top 2 responses to news of David Rose dying - people who are replying and RTing about conspiracy nonsense, ranked above people I both follow and who follow me
Top tweets below Cam Burgess going on international duty
And we are a minor account, on larger followed accounts its dozens and dozens of rubbish tweets like that from blue tick accounts, it's an awful user experience compared to what it was with people buying their position on your feed |
Well, for comparison, here are my 6 latest, exactly as they came just now -
As you can see, there were a couple of 'stop the boats' twts in there towards the end, but they were roundly slapped down (Purple Pimpernel is a great acct. to follow).
One major difference between us seems to be that I don't really follow much football on there apart from posts by EG & Sitters - I rely on this place for it. Of course you should be able to continue following it on there if you want, but to stop idiots like those you were getting jumping onto your feed in future, I'd just block them.
The total block facility is the saving grace of twitter/x for me - it's often in the past made that place pleasanter for me than here, where I was being persistently harrassed/abuse by a small number of people who I'd put on ignore but who could obviously still see my posts & use them to jump on me - even after Gav had imposed an enforced mutual 'block' that unfortunately just didn't work technically. | |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 21:27 - Sep 5 with 1237 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 09:03 - Sep 5 by Guthrum |
Not read the article, but the problem with this kind of headline is that the same can be - and has been - said about the internet as a whole, books, TV, newspapers music and every other sort of wide-circulation media. There will always be an element, often a noisy one, of extreme and/or offensive material. But the vast bulk of content is mundane. Bland, even.
The same with X. Most of it is just people Tweeting about their daily lives, self-publishing ordinary stuff or information about on-going events. Or it can be a conduit to get word out of information-restricted parts of the world, e.g. war zones, or places under oppressive regimes. Or to highlight abuses.
But, as always, there will be a (quite small) element of the less pleasant, or deliberately provocative, making noise. Noise which is accentuated by a polarised and febrile political atmosphere. This perception not helped by the antics of Musk himself.
The real question is "How did humanity get so racist, misogynist and full of hatred?"
The answer partly being in the other of those four words - lies and people's willingness to unquestioningly consume them. Often because they don't get taught how to appraise and avoid them. The rest of it is about fear and human nature's desire to be part of a group (with implied exclusion of "others"). |
The real question is "How did humanity get so racist, misogynist and full of hatred?"
Partly because they have easy access to a platform where racism, misogyny and hatred can be spread unchallenged, I’d imagine. Throw in a sprinkling of similar gaslighting of certain elements of the national press over many years, politicians weaponising these issues amongst their ‘side’ for personal career advancement and a culture of neoliberalism where ‘I’ is the most important, plus a general breakdown in traditional social fabric/communities and radical change in demographics in an ever more connected and mobile global population. |  |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 22:08 - Sep 5 with 1208 views | Coastalblue |
| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 13:24 - Sep 5 by Ryorry |
"every respone to any comment even on a more curated feed is from blue tick bots".
Sorry but that's just not true in my experience (Twitter account for 12 years, about 45K tweets over the years to/from about 2K followers/following). In fact I can't remember ever having had an unsolicited comment from a blue tick bot.
As I've said previously on the subject - Twitter/X is what you make of it -
Only follow good people.
Only allow good people to follow you.
Always opt for 'following', never 'for you'.
Don't click onto hashtags on controversial topics unless you're prepared to blow your gaskets, waste hours, & become extremely stressed.
Apply the 'mute' and 'block' facilities liberally.
I've found that it's perfectly possible to block Musk on his own platform & still continue using the platform as you did before (am surprised he allows this though!). |
I don't use the platform, so may completely wrong here, but, you're coming at this as a well balanced and liberal individual who is going to follow good people and decide to avoid things that aren't 'good people'
Does that work for the majority though who will potentially end up in an echo chamber who may not have such liberal views and be constantly fed ever hardening messages?
I genuinely don't know as I haven't used the platform in over 10 years. |  |
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| Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to on 23:09 - Sep 5 with 1160 views | victorywilhappen |
i see the down arrow by one or two not contributing to the discussion is a sign they do not agree but cannot express their opinions in words. Magic & bluebudgie are perfect examples of those that cannot speak but need to shout.. | | | |
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