Kim Crayton ~ Her/SheDec 21, 2022

Folx inability to look past the well manicured public persona has ONLY elevated this particular mediocre, unremarkable white tech dude and for the first time we’re seeing that all the fawning was unmerited

This is why titles like “liberal” mean nothing to me…what’s the behavior

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/elon-musk-liberal-twitter-plans-benevolent

Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent

Tech barons’ lip-service to democracy and pluralism was always conditional on preserving their own positions at the top

The Guardian
Show threadKim Crayton ~ Her/SheDec 21, 2022
“From a democratic perspective, it’s highly problematic that tech oligarchs like Musk are amassing so much power and influence. They are not democratically controlled in any way or guided by any concern for the public good. Musk is yet another example of how short the path from a certain kind of libertarianism to the far right is, a reminder that this type of libertarianism is driven by a desire for freedom from regulation and criticism of any kind.”
Show threadKim Crayton ~ Her/SheDec 21, 2022
“Much of the moral panic over “cancel culture” – which animated Musk to buy Twitter in the first place – is a reaction to the fact that traditionally marginalized groups gained technological means to affect the political debate.”
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@KimCrayton1 "Cancel Culture" is going to be one of those phrases at least as notorious as "Death Tax" and "Climate Change" dreamed up by Frank Luntz and his successors.

Where estate taxes and ecological catastrophe were what Frank wanted (consecutively) to scare us with, or put a fig-leaf over, the term "Cancel Culture" is intended to shape how we talk about people questioning the narrative.

Anyone need two tries to guess what was intended?

Dec 23, 2022 at 2:43amWeb