I think him being in office is in a small part the backlash of that reality
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred
The backlash to the backlash or which lash are we talking about?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Yes. I was in rural America during most of@the election cycle. The number of times I heard people say, “I don’t agree with what he’s saying but at least he isn’t politically correct” would shock you
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How about half a dozen studies? https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/15/16781222/trump-racism-economic-anxiety-study … Or maybe Austen’s conversations with people he happened to meet in rural areas in 2016 should be the evidence gold standard here.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @AustenAllred
Anyway, the underlying point is that none of us has a way to definitively prove whether people are or more less free to speak their mind on social networks than five years ago. But if you were to design such an experiment, what would it look like?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Not statistically perfect, but you could ask them
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Dave Zohrob 📈 Retweeted Andy Baio
not scientific but i found this illuminating:https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/999699093277442048?s=21 …
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Andy BaioVerified account @waxpancakeWant to see what your Twitter timeline would've looked like 10 years ago today, if you followed all the same people you do now? https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=filter%3Afollows%20until%3A2008-05-25%20-filter%3Areplies&src=typd …Show this thread2 replies 2 retweets 4 likes
WOW, this is GREAT. So very many mundane tweets about watching X-Men: The Last Stand, eating cupcakes and jet lag.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @AustenAllred
yeah, it makes twitter seem so TAME in comparison to now. or maybe life was carefree on the cusp of the Great Recession?
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Been thinking of this as an emergent behavior of 10,000Xing the users and reach of “dunks” on twitter. If “PC” has become “not cool to say in public”, an analogy might be moving from an audience to the stage & crying foul when the audience don’t like you as much as your friends
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