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Kat Tenbarge
The internet’s platforming of diversity was actually a reflection of reality, which spawned an alt-right backlash with the intention (and result) of destroying reality for the right-wing base and replacing it with conspiracy
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(Twitter was briefly a place where a speaker's words could sometimes count for more than the speaker's social power; the right accurately identified this as a threat, and sought to destroy that space, first through targeted harassment, then by simply buying the place and trashing it.)