Even digital wounds need to heal before we rip the Band-Aid off. It will be challenging,
In that sense every politician is religious - it's simply a question of which god they serve.
The MAGA hat has been through the media ringer, and has been used by some media outlets and political ideologies to pinpoint a clear and distinguishable symbol of hatred that exists in America. An America that they some say, is more racist, sexist, and backwards than ever.
People are escaping their normal, boring lives by dressing up as characters and getting mad about politics.
In the countercultural moment of the late 1960's, writers and cultural thinkers were doing as much to dissect and understand their time and their moment as we are today
People are turning to people like Jordan Peterson, Philip DeFranco, Christina Hoff Sommers, Tim Pool, and Joe Rogan to get their information for a reason.
An organization called Time’s Up is demanding that film producers take a pledge. It’s called “The 4% Challenge” and the goal is to increase the number of female directors working in the film industry.
Shortly after it was reported that over 1000 people were laid off at Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post, Twitter users expressed their Schadenfreude by tweeting “learn to code” at laid off journalists and their commiserators
Another Yellow Vest protest has ended in violence after Antifa counter-protesters showed up.
Frightening women out of their wits for no good reason and arousing shame in male viewers as both films are designed to do, serves no purpose other than to demonize men collectively.
We carry out the punishments ourselves in the form of tweets, and emails, and podcasts, and news stories, and every manner of hate-filled speech until we are drunk on our own moral superiority.
In a lot of ways, it feels like the entire media world has become Gawker in Gawker’s absence, as week after week, new stories emerge that are sourced by and catered to the outrage of readers.
It is not simply about silencing a voice; it is about ensuring that no one else hears it. It’s not simply that these companies want to establish family-friendly spaces; they don’t want offensive ideas to exist.
What do you want humanity to look like, feel like, and act like? What are those things about being human that we don't want to relegate to the dust heap of history?
The mobbing of the Covington Catholic high school boys that dominated social media yesterday was wrong. The media reports that spurred on the mobbing were wrong.