Father. Husband. Biologist. Anti-racist. Progressive. Product Director. Also much more.
"Clear is kind, unclear is unkind" - Brene Brown
Yes, a Black teen girl posting that same thing to Instagram would receive the same abuse. Worse actually.
But your racist F*x News watching relatives have been dishing this abuse out to Black folk since forever. It's not new to us.
What's new is that the hate has now come for your kids.
@jeffjarvis SO sick of the "people are saying" stories that pass for news now. It's reheated gossip with a dollop of tut-tutting about the incivility that the authors perpetuate by even writing this dreck.
And it always legitimizes the fear that "those people" - those not the White cishet-males who in too many ways still rule the world - are insinuating themselves where they don't belong, and are going to h*ck things up because they're inherently damaged somehow. #badjournalism
Regarding Efforts By You, An Inferior Person, To Cancel Me, A Genius
Since the Murdoch family launched Fox "News" several decades ago, Big Journalism has consistently endorsed the fiction that the outlet is journalistic in nature. There was an element of truth to that early on.
But for the past decade and longer, Fox "News" has been a thoroughly dishonest, relentless propagandist. It accumulates power and money by poisoning our public sphere.
Yet the journalism trade persists in calling it a news outlet, compounding the dishonesty.
It's disheartening.
@zorangrbic
Ironic, isn't it!?
An argument for public ownership in one of the powerhouse private publishing outlets, behind a paywall. Written for free by the authors.
(It's only a short correspondence, reading the whole wouldn't add much more.)
Carl T. Bergstrom
Jeff Jarvis
mekka okereke 
Sunset & Fire
Ken White
Dan Gillmor
Frank Pasquale
Wolfgang Lucht