After social constructivism permeated the humanities deeply enough to turn most journalists into postmodernists, they turned their focus from understanding social reality to constructing it. Journalism is no longer: X happened, but: here is how you should relate to X
"Putin used an army of Twitter bots to destroy the sincere joy of Star Wars fans about the contemporary morality update of the franchise"—"ok, not really, but it doesn't change what we think about Putin, or Star Wars, because that's totally what he would do if he'd thought of it"
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https://www.cbr.com/star-wars-russian-bots-derailed-last-jedi/ … (see also large slew of posts in everything from polygon to forbes that picked it up. WTF fellow liberals. The original story says no such thing: https://www.cnet.com/news/actually-half-of-the-last-jedi-haters-were-not-russian-trolls/ …
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