Re:Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trendin...
by mckirk on Saturday January 09, 2021 @07:17PM
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I'm a bit irked by these 'always been a thing'-responses.
Yes, it may be true that the thing (whatever it may be) is not a recent development, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't have steadily gotten worse over time and might eventually reach a tipping point that would be worth worrying about.
Re:Twitter Confirms It Halted 'Hang Mike Pence' as a Trendin...
by throw0101a on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:05PM
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From Fantasyland it's gone back and forth over the decades.
Good book by Tom Nichols:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise
Not anything recent:
> There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
* “A Cult of Ignorance” by Isaac Asimov, Newsweek, January 21, 1980, p. 19.
* PDF: https://media.aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_...
'Special' thinking has been part of the American DNA since the beginning (Jamestown, Puritans/Pilgrims):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasyland:_How_America_Went_...