This story was covered in a lot of places at the time, but this was one of the first ones that came up when I Googled for it now, so I had to go with it, given that I wasn’t interested in spending 30 minutes coming up with something that might be deleted within 2 minutes, anyway.
Most of the time I run across articles through NPR and BBC, although I get some info about more mundane internet drama through social media type stuff or random people I know being like “omg did you hear about blah blah blah” and I end up searching for things about said thing because they keep bringing it up and acting like if I don’t immediately drop everything and care about said thing I’m “part of the problem!“ A lot of the times things I look into start to seem kinda ambiguous.
Either way, I am fine with accepting my own immediate experiences as people “in the know” on the internet who call themselves progressive use “lived experience” as a source of truth constantly.
I think it is true that white straight cis men often get away with a lot of things, but I also have seen people act shitty from a lot of backgrounds and in the right circles one can get a lot of leeway! I also think popularity, social finesse, and social capital goes far for a lot of people of any background.
ETA: Also, if the argument is that trying to economically impact powerful people using social media mobbing tactics is ineffective, why are people even bothering to try to do it? What is the point of continuing with an utterly ineffective tactic?
