@jeffjarvis

I was not aware of anything being wrong with "teen girls" ?

Teen pregnancy is down.
Eating disorders are more rare.

I do think the "touch grass" concerns about too much time online have some merit. But before that we just watched TV almost as much.

Most people can recognize that more people seeking help for things like depression isn't the same as more people getting depressed.

Newspapers' anti-Black framing doesn't just hurt Black people. It hurts white people and Asian people too. It scares people that don't know white US history into making poor decisions.

The US passes laws not based on crime, but based on how white people feel about crime. How white people feel about crime, is largely based on fabrications by news coverage.

US media can invent a crime wave whenever it is convenient. Usually around elections, or after any progressive politician or DA is elected.🤡

There really is no equivalent dynamics on the American left. It's not like the New Republic is worried that they're going to lose subscribers to Jacobin if they aren't mean enough about Pete Buttigieg or something.

Our pundit class is so used to taking seriously the non-existent slippery slope that supposedly leads directly from liberal policies to Venezuela, that we've largely ignored the slippery slope from conservatism to fascism that's been there the entire time. https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1172884870978080769?s=20