until Donald Trump came along and was better for ratings. Look at the subjects that constantly get flagged on Hacker News, such as:
women just can't get ahead
it's so awful that young people this day don't believe in free speech
In both of these cases you can point to very real cases where a women was the victim of outrageous misbehavior or where a speaker came to a campus and was treated really rudely.
The problem isn't with the facts of a particular incident but rather with the emotions that these topics evoke: in either case we all have our frustrations about the barriers we encounter in life and the ways we feel unheard and unsafe.
Conversations like that rapidly deteriorate into people talking about their own personal pain and suffering but with the identifying information (usually) deleted so anything valuable is gone, you might feel compelled to get involved but any of the power that comes out of groundedness is gone when people are talking in generalities, about principles, either from the "liberal" viewpoint of "this situation is fundamentally unfair" or the "conservative" viewpoint that the moral accounting has to be done accurately down to three decimal places.
For instance this subject got nonstop coverage on CNN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
until Donald Trump came along and was better for ratings. Look at the subjects that constantly get flagged on Hacker News, such as:
In both of these cases you can point to very real cases where a women was the victim of outrageous misbehavior or where a speaker came to a campus and was treated really rudely.The problem isn't with the facts of a particular incident but rather with the emotions that these topics evoke: in either case we all have our frustrations about the barriers we encounter in life and the ways we feel unheard and unsafe.
Conversations like that rapidly deteriorate into people talking about their own personal pain and suffering but with the identifying information (usually) deleted so anything valuable is gone, you might feel compelled to get involved but any of the power that comes out of groundedness is gone when people are talking in generalities, about principles, either from the "liberal" viewpoint of "this situation is fundamentally unfair" or the "conservative" viewpoint that the moral accounting has to be done accurately down to three decimal places.