Elon Musk takes over Twitter

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-users/

Of course I’ve done the prove your work exercise before and the board finds a way for it not to count. You’re gonna believe what you believe

 

2019 … April 2019 … seems relevant.

 

That article also doesn’t say pretty much anything you’re claiming it says. Since I actually, you know, read it.

 

That’s like saying the dictionary contains the Communist Manifesto. You can make Twitter look like what you want because it contains multitudes.

 

If I’d ever written any version of the word discrimination you might be right. But I didn’t. I said Twitter is a treasure of the left. Which, it is. Without Twitter, where would the left go to critique and champion the top corporate and non-profit institutions for their social-political behavior? What we’ve learned is, like any good business, Twitter was catering to its top customers too. Twitter brass may have seen themselves in the left, but it’s also who’s spending the most time on the app. They want a certain pasta dish, give it to ‘em.

And part of what the left does on Twitter is pressure the center and the center-left to be more left. Which, it does.

I’d argue the same is true in higher ed. It’s actually OK - perhaps even necessary- to have a few villainous snarling ultra conservatives to poke and coalesce around. What’s increasingly less OK are folks who don’t check every box of progressivism. True on Twitter. True on campus.

In this world, Clay Travis and Charlie Kirk thrive *because* they’re awful. Their awfulness is kind of crucial, because they prove the left’s point. It’s non-progressive liberal who loses. Angels or villains preferred.

 

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Choosing Bari Weiss as a voice of reason baffles me. You might as well have picked Julian Assange.

 

treasure of the left?

 

surprised the left let it get to this