Post #1466480

As we talk about the future of online discourse atm amid Twitter's meltdown, I implore scholars explicitly commit to social justice and anti-fascism. We should give no quarter to the mealy-mouthed both-sides-ism embedded in, for instance, research on "polarization." Vague platitudes about the "marketplace of ideas" fails to reckon with the fact that far-right online discourse is a specific driving force behind offline stochastic terrorism. As a queer Jew, I'm tired of my people being killed.