Me on this conspiracy election—and how social media fuels this fire in the age of mistrust. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/opinion/campaign-stops/did-you-hear-the-latest-about-hillary.html …pic.twitter.com/2tiZMKBTAz
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Conspiracy theories have lately been outbursts of racism—Obama "birthers" or even misogyny. But that's not their only form.
Sometimes, they've been like a cancer on the urge to challenge power—impulse gone awry. They are also often manipulated by the powerful.
liked the piece, but some quibbles: 1/ big problem: untrusted institutions PRODUCE facts, not just "guard" and "advocate" for them.
2/in popular usage there is no principled distinction btw a "conspiracy theory" and a seemingly bad explanation This matters bc ...
3/"conspiracy theory" is often used as a term of disparagement or disqualification by an elite/statused person vs. undervoiced.
term "conspiracy theory" should be done away with, bc it doesn't really do any valuable descriptive work/end http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=30884
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