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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(I'm not asking you to take any particular position on the stupid hats. I'm asking you to notice the visceral reaction you have to a campaign wearable, to ask yourself where that's coming from, and to consider whether or not this seems normal.)
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Replying to @webdevMason
It isn't normal because Trump isn't normal. It's a property of the man, not the media landscape.
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Yes, that is the narrative. Is it also a property of the man that if I were to have to wear that hat — or even a hat that could just easily be mistaken for it — I'd be worried that I might actually get hurt?
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Symbols derive meaning from their referents. If you wore a shirt saying, "wetbacks and towel heads go home," the response would be the same. So yes, it's a property of the man. If you wear that hat, it means you support the violence against your neighbors that he is enacting.
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I want to be clear, here: you're saying the fact that I might get physically hurt for wearing a hat is a property of a man in DC, mediated by the fact that a red baseball hat means I support violence against my neighbors? Curious.
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Replying to @webdevMason
You're trying to disentangle the question of appropriateness of a media narrative from the underlying question of whether the narrative is true. That isn't possible.
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I'm not trying to do that at all! I'm trying to figure out why I never worried that a pro-lifer would physically assault me for supporting the murder of babies when I ran around Missouri in my Hope & Change swag.
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