But this is why Twitter and Facebook's design and lack of strategic, collective thinking ability are such an obstacle.
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The design and human temptation is to keep getting angry at immoral policies—which anger me, too. But also need focus on acceptable wedges.
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Movements recruit by polarization, but expand coalitions by grabbing wedge issues that unite their side, divide their opponents.
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Eternal tension: what works to recruit may not work to expand. And the balance is a strategic choice... Except, nowadays, who's making them?
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So onward it goes; and a big reason I have a nagging, growing intellectual pessimism these days.
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Hegemony of social media optimized not for sane debate but for grabbing attention as site of movement talk helped smother other movements.
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Will it happen here? I don't know. Nothing repeats exactly. But there is a broad pattern that has repeated, more or less in multiple places.
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To wit: he's got a Goldman Sachs cabinet, and a lower/working class base. If opposition can't work with that, well, go on a long vacation.
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And to repeat; opposition politics can and should be done WITHOUT giving an inch on anti-racism & anti-bigotry. Stop that debate. But move.
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Inclusive economic policies are not in conflict with anti-racism. You know who is disproportionately working class? Black people. Hispanics.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Cosmo Catalano
And some small but visible chunk of the mobilization against the EO was from evangelicals. Some work with refugees.https://twitter.com/cosmocatalano/status/833327168784629762 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted NoBrightShinyObjects
Arguably one of the big questions facing a 21st century movements. Current model fuels boom-bust cycle in movements.https://twitter.com/SaraCoyle5/status/833327382329192453 …
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In fact, working title of my forthcoming book was: networked boom-bust(ish) cycle. Twitter poll gave it a new name. https://www.amazon.com/Twitter-Tear-Gas-Fragility-Networked/dp/0300215126 …
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