A few years ago I was wondering if the ubiquity of the internet would lead to less or more ideological balkanization.
I thought, maybe it would let people find other hateful niche people to be aligned with, and would allow them to be congratulated on their beliefs and have them reinforced.
This seems like a step in the other direction. Thanks Internet!
I'm from Topeka, Kansas. My older sister went to Topeka West with Megan Phelps-Roper. I went to elementary school with her younger brothers (cousins?) Tim and Isaiah.
I can only attest to the latter but all the kids were good people. They just happened to be dragged out to the corners on the weekend to picket. I never really understood the signs they held anyway.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 23.1 ms ] threadI thought, maybe it would let people find other hateful niche people to be aligned with, and would allow them to be congratulated on their beliefs and have them reinforced.
This seems like a step in the other direction. Thanks Internet!
I can only attest to the latter but all the kids were good people. They just happened to be dragged out to the corners on the weekend to picket. I never really understood the signs they held anyway.
CJ seems like a swell guy and Megan and Grace seems to be doing well. Good for them, the less hateful people in the work the better the world is.
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Also wow, I'm not really a twitter user myself, but this story really paint how twitter is really a thing.