I think Twitter was the biggest culprit of this in the past year or two. We have a culture of yelling into the void now and people aren’t bothering to think before they post or say something so toxic that their credibility is completely shot.
When you can’t trust a word someone says because you can’t figure out where they’re coming from and how they’re framing the issue, then you don’t really know where to go to.
That’s the real issue. People think they have opinions, but they’re not facts. That’s what we have to deal with right now.
There’s one tweet that’s come up over and over again on this topic that has to do with Steve King and his support for white supremacy and white nationalism and neo-Nazis. There are a lot of people that are actually downplaying the impact and the magnitude of what he said. They say, “No, you can’t tell what someone is thinking just by looking at a Twitter account.”
I think Twitter was the biggest culprit of this in the past year or two. We have a culture of yelling into the void now and people aren’t bothering to think before they post or say something so toxic that their credibility is completely shot.
When you can’t trust a word someone says because you can’t figure out where they’re coming from and how they’re framing the issue, then you don’t really know where to go to.
That’s the real issue. People think they have opinions, but they’re not facts. That’s what we have to deal with right now.
There’s one tweet that’s come up over and over again on this topic that has to do with Steve King and his support for white supremacy and white nationalism and neo-Nazis. There are a lot of people that are actually downplaying the impact and the magnitude of what he said. They say, “No, you can’t tell what someone is thinking just by looking at a Twitter account.”