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empty · 3453 days ago · link · · parent · post: A Cop Killed A White Teen And The #AllLivesMatter Crowd Said Nothing
The way that hashtags change the public discourse by adding layer of political-linguistic abstraction to everyday social interactions by people at all levels of stratification across race, class, gender, etc, is... still incredibly astounding. I didn't think mass adoption of the internet would ever have looked like this, but here it is. Something weirder and yet more amazing than any of us internet early-adopters would have imagined.