There are echo chamber's across the political spectrum, but here's more data on how FOX/GOP/Trump one is deeper:https://praxis.ink/2016/08/the-conservative-media-echo-chamber-has-made-the-right-deaf-to-reality/ …
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Replying to @zeynep
More on what the Trump social media echo chamber looks like. 213K followers; claims "left" finds burkas empowering.pic.twitter.com/TJn0mznUSm
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Replying to @MarkAlexMcLenna
It's even hard to find defense of forcing burkas even among Muslim conservatives—it's a fringe thing (outside Afghanistan).
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Replying to @MarkAlexMcLenna
Sad part is they become more common in Afghanistan/Pakistan— area after almost 40 years of externally-fueled war. :-(
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Replying to @zeynep @MarkAlexMcLenna
But it seems fairly indefensible to claim that there is some "left" defense of the burka, specifically, as empowering.
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Prolonged war, foreign invasion & occupation, so often makes the situation so much worse for women. Women first victims.
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Meh, cites one source, from Australia, that's arguing that West is sexist, too, so that anti-Burka campaigns aren't honest.
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I mean, it's a poor example of "whataboutism" and I believe one could find *some* example but .. even that's not a defense.
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