From Wikipedia:Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination.[1] Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used as slang for a broader awareness of social
In a more competitive world the money seems to be in creating an echo chamber for people's prejudices: thus Fox News, a conservative American cable-news channel, makes more profits than its less strident rivals, CNN and MSNBC, combined. What is to be done? At a societal level, not much...
I finally think people want to know what other people’s thoughts are again and are aware they may have been living in an echo chamber of the same opinions for some time now.” We may eventually get tired of the filtered lives of strangers, just as we have of some celebrity and ...
When I first signed up for Twitter, in July of 2013, I never could have imagined all the things I would eventually gain from it—among them my first job in New York media, an introduction to my current partner, and a seemingly incurable case of meme brain that’s had me repeating no...
-> I meant, there's always the danger of being biased without knowing it (that what a bias is after all). You said that I was also in an echo chamber, implying that I also have a skewed view; that is a possibility. In fact, everyone has a bias towards some side, as it's not...
The University of Kent How Politics Works: From the Individual to an International Scale 4 weeks Politics & Society Why is freedom of speech important? There are so many reasons why freedom of speech is important. Of course, the biggest reason is that freedom is paramount in a democracy...
This was foolish. But I see how it happened. We progressives all fell into an echo chamber of wishful thought, just like the Republicans did during their primary. Trumpcouldn’twin, so hewouldn’twin. We forgot that there is a distinction between media representations of reality and reality ...
Come to think of it, this is definitely true. And I’m also — more often than I’d like — the victim of myself in the sin of loss aversion. Here’s an example I’m not proud of: During the pandemic, when my last employer included me in its efforts to deliver on quarterly ...
who is Black, came from a family that had been through a couple of rough instances with the police. And the boy, who was the son of acop, came from an upbringing in which BLM was labeled as a movement in defiance of the police. Later on, I was surprised to learn that, though they...
outrage over Trump's social media bans to attract a broad audience, Truth Social, much like fellow right-leaning social media platforms Gettr and Parler, has not been able to move much beyond an echo chamber of conservative political commentary — if they are able tostay onlinein...