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That's an astonishingly narrow interpretation of what ails social media, and I would submit are echos of problems that rest many layers above bedrock. Closer to
by sjwright 6y ago
That's an astonishingly narrow interpretation of what ails social media, and I would submit are echos of problems that rest many layers above bedrock. Closer to bedrock is how the human psyche responds to the unfathomable scale and signal amplification algorithms which pervade all online culture.
Put simply, the internet cannot be expected to cure the human condition. We're not well suited to living in a world where community means millions of people. Aggregate human behaviour becomes too predictable at scale, and in turn more easily hackable.
And this ends up making people post intentionally inflammatory comments, such as an inference that privilege or resources reliably insulate people from loss or marginalisation. Individual humans from all strata are complex and deserve more respect than a game of intersectional olympics. My advice is to try to treat all people as individuals, no matter how satisfying it might be to marginalise groups as privileged, toxic or biased.