It’s interesting also which platforms prefer which norms. On my Instagram, everyone is a sexy millionaire. When I had Twitter, everyone utterly hated straight, white men.
Neither of these are an accurate representation of society.
Neither of these are an accurate representation of society.
Although I guess this is slowly changing with new generations, I've noticed more and more people spewing their social medias's "prêt a penser" out of nowhere, as if you had to chose your side on every single topic of the day. One minute your talking with your 14 year old nephew and the next he'll tell you why he supports Israel, I wish I was exaggerating but I literally went through that scenario during the Christmas holidays
I did see a lot of hate show up at marginalized people or had those otherwise minority representation in society. I did see a lot of people challenged for their personal beliefs that went on to claim racism and sexism, especially but not exclusively among straight white men.
Nobody should suffer the indignity of discrimination for what we were born into, but people are often way too quick to dismiss ideological criticism as discrimination.
I recently created a new YouTube account, and for the first few months, YT couldn’t work out if I was a Nazi or a Communist. I’m neither.
You should not just assume that users are only shown ideas they already believe in. Because, that is obviously not true.
Yes, there are terrible extremists on Twitter who hate men. It's our responsibility not to let that make us believe that's the literal truth of the bulk of society.
That was literally my argument.
Let’s just end this here.