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Originally Posted by kane
I love how there are some conservatives out there who won't hesitate to call someone a snowflake because they think those people are over-sensitive are now boycotting Budweiser because their Super Bowl commercials dared to suggest the company was started by an immigrant.
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you hit on something really important here. I had no idea there was a boycott of budweiser beer, I had to do an internet search to find out about it
and what I found when I searched was this: important fourth estate institutions reporting that a bunch of people on twitter have created a hashtag in response to a superbowl commercial
this is news. that people are now talking about because it's in the news.
really?
I think social media is really important and absolutely has a role to play in social and political movements, but we need to be smart enough to know the difference between movements and issues and...noise
and we need to demand that our institutions of journalism, institutions essential for democracy to function ffs, make the same distinction. not doing so elevates the importance of the noise, far beyond what the content merits
a bunch of beer drinking, immigrant-hating, football lovers with twitter accounts are not the same as the Green Movement in Iran