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Lots of baseless bs First claim that social media can't be responsible because less than 50% of the us population use twitter, but that ignores the other socia
by dangerface 4y ago
Lots of baseless bs
First claim that social media can't be responsible because less than 50% of the us population use twitter, but that ignores the other social media platforms 70% of americans use facebook [1], the author has cherry picked a specific social media platform so they can hand wave it.
The second and third argument is simply acknowledging that political correctness is a tribal thing and that younger generations who are more likely to use social media are now deciding whats politically correct.
This is all fine but the author then assumes that the millennial's are making decisions based on boomer iraq war policies not the social media platform they use daily, the author provides no evidence or reason for this speculation / conclusion.
The only thing that supports the author is that they have correctly identified tribalism but we already know we are more tribal and radical the question is why . The authors answer is the iraq war and policies from the 90s but most zoomers have never heard of this and most millennial see it as history. Millennials don't spend their time reminiscing about boomer wars, this is a very boomer perspective on current events.
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/10/share-of-u-s-adults-using-social-media-including-facebook-is-mostly-unchanged-since-2018/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/10/share-of-u-...