The Internet recreates offline prejudices and changes them, twists them, makes them voyeuristic, and anonymity and physical distance make it easier for some individuals to treat other people as less than human. Laurie Penny Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet.
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kittenspine: police are blaming social media because we’ve hit a point in social media where mass amounts of people are being made aware of events via first person accounts, through photos and videos and live streams of course they’re blaming social media because social media is making it harder to lie and hide the truth …
Foucault v. Spiderman
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Everything in the world is about sex except sex. It’s about power.(Oscar Wilde). via pfeffer
The violence on the streets is being dismissed as ‘pure criminality,’ as the work of a ‘violent minority’, as ‘opportunism.’ This is madly insufficient. It is no way to talk about viral civil unrest. Angry young people with nothing to do and little to lose are turning on their own communities, and they cannot be …
we don’t care about parties. drugs, fashion. girls. power. people. melody. we. don’t. care. Peter Kernel — Anthem of Hearts (by onthecamperrecords; via Rote Raupe)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)