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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 27
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    The minnesota brutality case like the Karen dog case is striking in its lack of ambiguity unlike past social media videos. I cannot imagine any reasonable context thing we might be missing that would justify the behaviors. Really no room for reasonable doubt that it’s not WYSIWYG

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 27
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        Masks coming off in more ways than one 🤔

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      1. ben mosior‏ @HiredThought May 27
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        I'm angry and sad. And I expect more like it, as masks are left at home. What do you do if it happens near you?

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      1. bane says wear a mask‏ @mwotton May 27
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        I can't help thinking of ssc's argument in "toxoplasma of rage" that borderline cases become huge because both sides are willing to beef about them, but not clear-cut ones. Maybe the range of bad behaviour from the in-group that we will accept and defend is increasing?

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      1. Mr. Eli W. Jones‏ @mreliwjones May 27
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        Mr. Eli W. Jones Retweeted Mr. Eli W. Jones

        The Karening is upon us. Long overdue.https://twitter.com/mreliwjones/status/1265649431543775238?s=20 …

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      2. Tentatively returning to this hellsite‏ @pneumatik May 27
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        Videos like those capture instances when people’s internal justifications for actions don’t align with the majority’s. For many people caught on video this misalignment is occasional, not constant.

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      3. Tentatively returning to this hellsite‏ @pneumatik May 27
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        My hope is seeing this videos and being afraid of getting caught on it makes people behave better. My fear is that it is normalizing terribly behavior as people realize everyone’s actually a much worse person than they claim.

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      1. Tycoon the Architect‏ @MisterTycoon May 27
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        Agreed. Society’s eyes are now a panopticon (store front/🏡 cameras, 4k cell camera 📱’s on every man, woman & child), coupled with an iteratively trained demographic to now 🎥 encounters to capture as much nuance as possible from multiple angles, collectively and singularly.

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      2. Karen Karenina‏ @culteyes May 27
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        The Karen dog case is interesting in that the victim out-smarted the Karen by anticipating her — in other words, he had to have had enough experience (personally or via media) of her behavior type to be able to protect himself. He out-karenned her, used her weapon against her.

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      3. Karen Karenina‏ @culteyes May 27
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        It’s both “obvious” - as you said, impossible to argue a different interpretation - &meta. Dog Karen trying to manipulate institutional racism against the man, he manipulating the power of social media not just to protect himself but to protect future others subverting her weapon

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      1. Michael Chapiro‏ @mchapiro May 27
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        +1 for beneficial use-cases of new Twitter feature

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