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>It seems to be quite the opposite. Every week I'm let know what it is I'm supposed to be outraged about. One of the things that's most jarring about the Inter
by tedks 11y ago
>It seems to be quite the opposite. Every week I'm let know what it is I'm supposed to be outraged about.
One of the things that's most jarring about the Internet age is that a minority group that previously would be blacklisted from newspapers, ignored by local administrators, etc., can actually broadcast its grievances to the world as a whole without any mediation. The decline of money going to journalism as the print medium dies means that instead of an actual journalist working on a story for weeks at a time, a "journalist" is a SEO grayhat with a click quota, and pulling "stories" from twitter is easy.
Do you think that most millenials are activists? How many do you think are involved in activism? How many millenials do you think have been to a protest?
>It would seem, if anything, South Park just tries to round things out to free speech. You can call that nihilism, I guess, in a sort of perfunctory way.
I think you're reading too much into the theme of this season -- it's easy to do that when it seems like someone agrees with you. But how does dismissing climate change, gun control advocacy, or the concern of parents over their children's safety relate to free speech?
- remarkEon 11y ago-> Do you think that most millenials are activists? How many do you think are involved in activism? How many millenials do you think have been to a protest? I think a lot would call themselves activists, yeah. Because like you pointed out the barriers to participation are considerably lower and millennials are an entire generation removed from the the 1960s-70s, so they didn't witness the civil rights movement etc. Now, how many have actually been to a protest? I'm not sure, but I also don't think that matters anymore since that seems hardly the threshold level for participation anymore. -> I think you're reading too much into the theme of this season -- it's easy to do that when it seems like someone agrees with you. But how does dismissing climate change, gun control advocacy, or the concern of parents over their children's safety relate to free speech? And we wouldn't want any room for debate on those nuanced, complicated issues now, would we.