Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

Increasingly, however, young people are acculturated to prioritize moral clarity and outrage at injustice, or “cultural competencies” such as “reading the room,” avoiding microaggressions, and centering the identity of the speaker, perhaps w/ privilege or intersectional analysis — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

To make the next generation more resilient to disinformation, we should shift back toward prioritizing dispassionate analysis of statements, regardless of the speaker’s perceived identity, as a valuable habit of mind, not a microaggressive example of insensitivity. — PolitiTweet.org