Sitting here stunned at how many men are new to this. I cannot imagine what it is like to have never seen, heard, or being subjected to this crap. The level of denial and/or apathy to what women have been saying about this for so long is extraordinary.
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I've honestly never heard the term "incel" until this week - or if I had, I failed to register it. As a gay man, I do find it horrifying to see the mechanics of identity politics co-opted to organize identities around hatefulness & sexual frustration. That is deeply unsettling.
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It's being weaponized. They feed on each other and then people come in to stir the pot and tell them to arm themselves etc. they are being taught this - you can see it in 4chan, for example
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I wish I had a policy prescription. The closest thing I've seized on is the idea that we need to be looking to the past and figuring out a way to build a private/civil analog to Radio Free Europe. I really don't know how to do that or what it'd look like.https://twitter.com/ragepath/status/930718489534328833 …
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That has classically been one of the recommendations for combating disinformation and propaganda (as you probably know) but the people currently in charge seem to be comfortable with it. Really though, newsrooms just need money. We know what to do
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Yeah. I'm trying to invent a different model, or something. I'm not sure what I'm trying to do. I come out of politics, where the systems are deeply broken. I look at journalism, and the systems seem to be collapsing too. Civil society needs to assert itself from the bottom up.
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I don't think that journalism is fundamentally flawed. What is flawed is how society looks at it: as a cash cow. We offer a public service, not a machine to line some old asshole's pockets
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Bingo! When you consider the days of Jennings, Brokaw, Rather, and Koppel were not that long ago it starts to sink in that we’ve lost something we may never have again. Journalism is the focus of journalists - who seem to be an increasingly endangered species.
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We'll have journalism again. It will get much better, and soon. I truly believe that.
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It's not the ignorance of the type it's ignorance of the level of organisation. I knew horrific mysoginists existed but didn't know of groups forming around this issue till Toronto
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