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Re:Unilever Says It Will Resume Advertising on Facebook by coolgeek on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:46AM (#25560649)
> Judgements about status are embedded in almost everything aspect of the news. To read the news is to be insulted — which is why people are fleeing the mainstream media in droves.

Except that the people that are "fleeing the mainstream media" are going to media sources (on the right, and the left) that are even more judgmental, and even more insulting.

That pretty much annihilates his argument.

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Re:Unilever Says It Will Resume Advertising on Facebook by dwaltrip on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:57PM (#25562025)
These other sources conform more strongly to the existing beliefs and values of prominent groups, right? So they are only more insulting for those outside of that group.
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Re:Unilever Says It Will Resume Advertising on Facebook by coolgeek on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:50PM (#25562539)
For better or worse, mainstream media is the closest thing we have to a consensus view that resembles reality as it exists (affirmatively, not normatively).

Retreating into safe spaces (either on the right, or on the left) isn't the answer.

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