Whenever some kind of protest goes on long enough there's ALWAYS some kind of peace summit where some famous person gets invited to have lunch with the bad guys and comes out going "Okay they were actually really nice, let's stop the negativity" Even though nothing changed
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"I'm the president of a gay rights org and I had lunch with the CEO of Chick Fil A" Good for you, put it on your Instagram, who the hell cares
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JK Rowling is almost certainly gearing up extend an invitation to her castle to some trans millennial YouTuber right before Fantastic Beasts 3 premieres Bookmark this tweet and don't fucking fall for it
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But I really hate the cloying liberal takes that all our problems would be solved if we could appoint a bunch of figurehead leaders to gather over a beer and hash things out and become friends Fuck off
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It'd be a great way for a few privileged famous people to cadge free beers It wouldn't solve any problems It'd be a really effective way to make sure problems continue Buying one person lunch costs the powerful much less than giving a class of people their rights
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I'm nobody and my opinion in and of itself does not matter If I'm yelling at someone and "canceling" them it's because of what they did to harm a group of people If you have an apology or restitution to make, you can share it with the whole class or keep it to yourself
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Another thing that explains why online interactions feel more “hostile” is that it minimizes your ability to cater your expression to the audience.
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Like if you’re with like minded people in real life, you’ll talk about, say, Republicans differently than when you talk to a Republican family member. In the latter conversation you will say much more “moderate” things than in the former.
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Yes What I'm getting at here is people accuse Twitter about being "performing for your followers" without ever considering if one-on-one convos are people "performing" for that one person
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Superninfreak
*Especially* powerful people People with power are really bad at recognizing when they're being sucked up to, I think because they choose to be ("No, she really loves me for me")
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You see this all the time Universally hated celebrities, people hated for very specific and justified reasons, like actual crimes, go "Nah that's just haters clowning for attention I talk to them with the cameras off and people are fine with me"
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Well in that case also I think there’s an obvious psychological aversion to being hated. So if you’re famous and get way more negative attention than your brain can process you will take the shortcut of dismissing the criticism as haters hating for no reason.
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