... and before somebody nitpicks, that means that for some users, and their particular experiences and tradeoffs, the fediverse is objectively worse than commercial social media. That may include some/many/... black users.
Yes of course!
Is J.D. Vance "just" an opportunist pretending to be radicalized in order to grab power? Or is the radicalization real? Some thought-provoking observations from Noah Berlatsky:
"J.D. started off with a lot of reactionary and invidious ideas about marginalized people; he believed they were immoral, he believed they were irresponsible, he believed that their lack of traditional values led them astray."
#JDVance#PeterThiel#TechBros #racism #authoritarianism
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/was-vance-sincerely-radicalized-or
"Then he marinated in the eugenic ferment of Silicon Valley techbro reaction, and he came away convinced not that he was wrong, but that he hadn’t sufficiently appreciated his own rightness. Trump’s cruelty and contempt had put Vance off; Thiel and company convinced Vance (by argument or example) that he was being too soft. They told him to listen to his own hate. That’s how radicalization works."
The attacks on Harris from the right have been very brazen in their #misogyny and #racism.
For example, the New York Post published a column earlier this month saying Harris would be the country’s first “DEI president”,
referring to diversity, equity and inclusion.
This is a way of dismissing anybody who’s🔸 not white and not a man 🔸as not being worthy of the position they’ve earned.
Trump rose to national prominence prosecuting the same kind of racist campaign against the presidency of Barack Obama.
I think we can expect there to be a push for the Trump campaign not to go down that road any further.
But we’ve seen in the past how Trump completely ignores that kind of conventional wisdom, and just how much that incites his base.
This remains a dangerous and unpredictable era in American politics. There are no rules for what happens next.
-- Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University