Social Media Outrage/Cancel Culture

[MartyFunkhouser]

https://www.avclub.com/i-celebrated-...lqE0hWYWk1rVEU

I haven't listened to the actual podcast yet, but I actually love the description of how this was handled. Instead of engaging in the social media outrage culture, the guy used it as an opportunity to create a dialogue about why what was done was problematic.

[swampfrog]

Interesting piece from the Atlantic about social media's role in the fracturing of our society:

https://outline.com/r4jHHc

Jonathan Haidt is definitely one of my favorite social psychologists of this generation.

Lots of great quotes in there.

The U.S. Constitution was an exercise in intelligent design. The Founding Fathers knew that most previous democracies had been unstable and short-lived. But they were excellent psychologists, and they strove to create institutions and procedures that would work with human nature to resist the forces that had torn apart so many other attempts at self-governance.

The social psychologist Mark Leary coined the term sociometer to describe the inner mental gauge that tells us, moment by moment, how we’re doing in the eyes of others. We don’t really need self-esteem, Leary argued; rather, the evolutionary imperative is to get others to see us as desirable partners for various kinds of relationships. Social media, with its displays of likes, friends, followers, and retweets, has pulled our sociometers out of our private thoughts and posted them for all to see.

[BlueK]

Interesting piece from the Atlantic about social media's role in the fracturing of our society:

https://outline.com/r4jHHc

[Jeff Lebowski]

Ok boomer.

Hack!

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[falafel]

Obama speaks out against cancel culture, outrage culture, and being woke. Good for him.

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Ok boomer.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Obama speaks out against cancel culture, outrage culture, and being woke. Good for him.

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[myboynoah]

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That is sooooo funny.

[Uncle Ted]

We all need to be outraged that Greta, that annoying AF girl from Sweden, did not win the Nobel Peace Prize which she in no way deserved.

Oh come on... She deserved it as much as Obama.

[imanihonjin]

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[SCcoug]

We all need to be outraged that Greta, that annoying AF girl from Sweden, did not win the Nobel Peace Prize which she in no way deserved.

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[BigPiney]

We all need to be outraged that Greta, that annoying AF girl from Sweden, did not win the Nobel Peace Prize which she in no way deserved.

[Walter Sobchak]

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[Walter Sobchak]

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[Eddie]

Dude, you're just a privileged rich white male who doesn't care about the working classes and the rights and lives of millions of people! You either simply don't know how utterly hurtful and hateful your words are, or even worse, you know but don't care about the literal anguish and pain you are causing as you side with evil.

Hey. I have never watched a football game in the fancy owners box with a mass-murdering genocidal madman like Ellen did. So don't you judge me!

[Jeff Lebowski]

Holy cow those responses show that there are a ton of self-righteous ass holes in this world. Incredible.

Mind-blowing that she even needed to make that speech. What is wrong with people?