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by DaveZale
314 days ago
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that's a good perspective, but I gave up on social media years ago. The bots on reddit cancelled me for harmless comments, for example. On something like X, it seems like pay to play. Do you agree that censorship on these topics is peculiar to the US media? Seems like that to me. I agree with your observation about the recursion, at least in the US media - the word choice that outlets use can soften the emotional impact even of something like genocide, it seems. |
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You didn't give up. You got cancelled, via recursion. But they made you believe you had agency in the matter. you are exactly in that segment of people that could cause overflow and bring the sentiment beyond a tipping point.
It's not just the words the media use, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
What's worse is that they made people feel good for supporting factually conflicting causes. "I'm helping refugees." Not "I'm helping refugees who caused a war in their country and then ran without any regard whatsoever about what will happen to the people they left behind. They are not telling the truth but I take their word for things anyway because I get to feel good."
Genocides then become almost irrelevant because if you support conflicting causes, there is no need or reason to oppose conflicting causes.
It's what I noticed in Germany in the past 11 years since the Syrian war. Everybody should get to live their lives was the perspective only as long as those same people abide by the same pattern, which was supporting conflicting causes in conflicting ways, making opposition to the conflicting part an absolute negative and supporting the overall thing a positive.
This way people got cancelled without actually getting cancelled. And those people then believed "they gave up", "their energy wasn't worth it", "they can't do anything on these public channels", which is true of course.
Short attention span platforms are the wrong way. Not enough space and time for brands and labels. Twitch, YT, lots of fuss and pomp. Twitter and reddit then for the scandalous meta talk about you or about how you were treated or how someone reacted and so on rather then the message itself. And when I say "you", I mean anyone who wants to play that game.