This is good Nathaniel, as are all your entries. Two possible qualifiers. 1. It was Colin Wright who first posted that cartoon (of how the left has moved), Elon just retweeted it (Colin has a whole WSJ op ed on this and the larger points). 2. Whether the right is generally more sensitive to threats is in the process of being walked back. I'd say the status of that as a general conclusion is unclear at best (it likely reflects a manifestation of political bias in study construction), but, regardless of my opinions: i. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661322000419 ii. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01327-5
Thank you. I appreciate being informed of any mistakes I make.
I edited the section on the cartoon to be more clear about it's source and to link to Wright's op ed. I was unaware of that complication about threat perception - Johnston and Madson (2022) and Brandt and Bakker (2022) came out after I had finished writing my dissertation. I have updated the article accordingly.
I tried to find out if there's been a similar challenge to Hibbing et al. (2013)'s claim that social conservatives tend to be hard categorizers while liberals tend to be soft categorizers. I only found one article by Meyer (2020), who agreed with Hibbing et al. Is that still correct? The link in the article leads to the full Meyer pdf.
Something about the characterization of LibsofTikTok as a 'weapon' seems wrong to me.
It's a partisan social media account. It generally rebroadcasts material that others have already posted and sometimes adds some context as to who what and where.
It is effective only as far as showing a conservative/moderate(?) audience a growing cultural movement that they were largely unaware of.
If 'LibsofTikTok' is a weapon, why aren't the social media accounts of people and organizations that see the world through a left wing lens also considered 'weapons?' Is it because we are already so used to seeing this perspective that we are accustomed to it?
I would say that they too are political weapons. Any account dedicated to showing the other side in the most negative light possible is a political weapon, because it's designed to damage public perception of the other side. Most accounts are like small arms fire, but this is more like the development of smart bombs. There's a universe of these types of accounts of course, but Libsoftiktok has come across a really effective strategy.
The culture war, like any war, leads to innovation. When hate speech laws and rules were expanded to include microaggressions that led to people being fired or expelled for seemingly innocent comments or stating commonly held beliefs, that too was a major weapon that was a game changer in the culture wars. So were deplatforming, doxxing, and swatting.
Libsoftiktok is similarly a game changer on that level, in my opinion.
This is good Nathaniel, as are all your entries. Two possible qualifiers. 1. It was Colin Wright who first posted that cartoon (of how the left has moved), Elon just retweeted it (Colin has a whole WSJ op ed on this and the larger points). 2. Whether the right is generally more sensitive to threats is in the process of being walked back. I'd say the status of that as a general conclusion is unclear at best (it likely reflects a manifestation of political bias in study construction), but, regardless of my opinions: i. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661322000419 ii. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01327-5
Thank you. I appreciate being informed of any mistakes I make.
I edited the section on the cartoon to be more clear about it's source and to link to Wright's op ed. I was unaware of that complication about threat perception - Johnston and Madson (2022) and Brandt and Bakker (2022) came out after I had finished writing my dissertation. I have updated the article accordingly.
I tried to find out if there's been a similar challenge to Hibbing et al. (2013)'s claim that social conservatives tend to be hard categorizers while liberals tend to be soft categorizers. I only found one article by Meyer (2020), who agreed with Hibbing et al. Is that still correct? The link in the article leads to the full Meyer pdf.
Something about the characterization of LibsofTikTok as a 'weapon' seems wrong to me.
It's a partisan social media account. It generally rebroadcasts material that others have already posted and sometimes adds some context as to who what and where.
It is effective only as far as showing a conservative/moderate(?) audience a growing cultural movement that they were largely unaware of.
If 'LibsofTikTok' is a weapon, why aren't the social media accounts of people and organizations that see the world through a left wing lens also considered 'weapons?' Is it because we are already so used to seeing this perspective that we are accustomed to it?
I would say that they too are political weapons. Any account dedicated to showing the other side in the most negative light possible is a political weapon, because it's designed to damage public perception of the other side. Most accounts are like small arms fire, but this is more like the development of smart bombs. There's a universe of these types of accounts of course, but Libsoftiktok has come across a really effective strategy.
The culture war, like any war, leads to innovation. When hate speech laws and rules were expanded to include microaggressions that led to people being fired or expelled for seemingly innocent comments or stating commonly held beliefs, that too was a major weapon that was a game changer in the culture wars. So were deplatforming, doxxing, and swatting.
Libsoftiktok is similarly a game changer on that level, in my opinion.
Thanks for the engagement!