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Twitter aggressively censors anyone without institutional approval. Twitters scratch the elites' backs, so the elites scratch back. Trump was banned from Twitt
by screye 5y ago
Twitter aggressively censors anyone without institutional approval. Twitters scratch the elites' backs, so the elites scratch back.
Trump was banned from Twitter first. Any one with mildly right wing opinion is insta-banned from twitter. Blue checkmarks are strongly tied to institutional approval and fringe institutional voices are given a megaphone.
Twitter perpetuates the current class system. So those in power have no qualms with it.
- AniseAbyss 5y agoTrump is part of the elite just not the elite Twitter is part of. You think the elite all think the same? No they have their political differences. But you don't have to cry for him the GOP has its own media empire.
- scarface74 5y agoSince when wasn’t someone who is supposedly a billionaire not part of the “elite”?
- screye 5y agoThe cultural elite is completely different from having money. It is the same reason that Trump was ridiculed for putting ketchup on steak or why journalists/post-docs are willing to make pennies on jobs that grand them access the cultural elite. I give the example of Trump because he the clearest contrast that differentiates wealth from the elite. Phrases like 'Nouveau Riche' or 'Paise aaye, par aukaad nahi aaye' (money without class) have existed in different cultures for centuries. This is not a new concept.
- scarface74 5y agoSomeone who owns private airplanes and golf courses aren’t part of the “cultural elite”? Before Trump’s conversion to a populist in 2016, he was very much part of the cultural elite and spent most of his time hanging out with celebrities and Democrats.