IMO, identifying the IDW as fundamentally about growing polarization/SJW influence/etc. narrowly misses the mark: that w/ the mobile web, institutions lost the ability to redirect narratives arbitrarily & started compensating by pandering to "thematic truths" ever more recklessly https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1142970381583704064 …
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The nature of the extremism is volatile; tribes, figures, policies will wax & wane. The insanity is here to stay, because there are fewer & fewer shared truth verification protocols — as the overlap between our worlds recedes, we're losing the ability to have conversations at all
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This genuinely isn't about a common enemy or a common object-level goal, which is why everyone else seems to care more about the "infighting" than the IDW itself does. It's about the fact that shared reality is spinning out & since the elites can't reel it in, they're chasing it
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If you don't grok why the IDW "picks on" the left so much for a set of mostly self-described leftists, you're not tracking it. It's subtle from this side. It's worth meditating on how strange it is that a piece of voter swag has become an accepted media symbol for "bad person"pic.twitter.com/bQbU6KeHBt
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It’s just an illusion that this happens on one side only. If you venture into conservative circles you get the same stuff directed at feminists with short and colorful hair, gay people, hippies or really any kind of group.
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Replying to @webdevMason
I don't know, just the first thing that came to mind. There's thousands of these SJW cringe compilations where people try to make all feminists or leftists in general look like a bunch of loonies and they've largely succeeded.pic.twitter.com/2QPMbE4o6n
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The claim is not that stereotyping or tribal pattern-matching belongs to one side. I'm *specifically* tracking the media narrative, because I'm trying to explain that this — who chooses the symbols & how they propagate — is at the core of IDW sense-making.
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This is a different criticism than the one that is often made by IDW members though I feel. A few of the news sites that you posted a screencap of actually lean conservative (NY Post, Washington Examiner). Yet there is often a very clear political label attached to this criticism
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I guess I can't do more than just refer you back to my first tweet and offer to agree to disagree on what the IDW is
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Replying to @webdevMason
I definitely agree with you that there are people in the IDW that are essentially just doing it to decentralize narratives. That's all fine, but you still have a significant amount of people who pander even more recklessly than any "mainstream media" source. E.g.
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You're doing something really interesting over the last several tweets and I'm wondering if you've noticed it
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