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I'm not sure how directly the cancelling is affiliated with SSC, but the #ghostnyt hashtag is a pretty good cancellation motion. The only thing that's really re
by mrkurt 6y ago
I'm not sure how directly the cancelling is affiliated with SSC, but the #ghostnyt hashtag is a pretty good cancellation motion. The only thing that's really reached my bubble has been outrage and cancellation, though.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ghostnyt https://twitter.com/hashtag/ghostnyt
- whatshisface 6y ago"They tweeted something bad" -> "get them fired," is substantially different from, "the reporters working for this organization are dangerous," -> "don't talk to them." One is going on the offense, the other is defensive.
- charia 6y agoI'm fairly sure that #ghostnyt was a reaction to the NYTimes airing of the Tom Cotton op-ed. I don't doubt that some SSC fans latched onto it, but I'd be surprised if even a third of those using #ghostnyt were from SSC aligned people.
- lkbm 6y agoEDIT: Would work better if I spelled "NYT" correctly. Oops. Still looks like all SA tweets, though[1]. EDIT 2: Whoops, this was meant as a reply to charia's point. This reply about Scott Alexander appears to be the first usage[0]: https://twitter.com/ChrisSt41125908/status/1275557789415464962 https://twitter.com/ChrisSt41125908/status/12755577894154649... [0] https://twitter.com/search?q=until%3A2020-06-24%20since%3A2020-01-01%20%23ghostnyc&src=typed_query https://twitter.com/search?q=until%3A2020-06-24%20since%3A20... [1] https://twitter.com/search?q=until%3A2020-06-24%20since%3A2020-01-01%20%23ghostnyt&src=typed_query https://twitter.com/search?q=until%3A2020-06-24%20since%3A20...