The most interesting thing of this to me is how low the bar for “Things I dare not tweet” has become. The days of freely speaking your mind on social networks are over.https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1079737187233492994 …
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred
How do you prove that that is actually true? I mean, look at who is running this country and what they are allowed to say versus what was acceptable in the Overton window of discourse a decade ago. We should just go back to the halcyon days of sharing latte art.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
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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Replying to @ZimVC @AustenAllred
I could see how some people's feelings would get hurt when they say things that others interpret as casually racist and sexist and then the other people tell them so.
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It is harder to be “authentically you” in public than ever, with all the knives out to spear you in every word. But people still crave authenticity, so it’s huge boon to people who come off as authentically themselves online. Not easy.
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Replying to @nabeel @kimmaicutler and
And FWIW, I agree a certain attraction to Trump, aside from politics completely, was absolutely his “telling it like it is” demeanor. That didn’t mean truthful, that means it’s Trump being Trump, lies and all. People felt the authenticity.
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Also nihilism!
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