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A big part of why we see the same reductive and problematic conversations happening now as did in 2016 is none of the pundits and journalists who covered 2016 were held accountable for how their own biases and double standards undermined the national discourse.
Same thing goes for influencers on this platform. Same people (and bots) who helped get us into this mess saying the same things in bad faith about 2020 candidates and getting the same results - with no accountability. And the same algorithms amplifying that content are in place.
Not to say that there aren’t legitimate criticisms to be discussed and candidates held accountable. But the system in which that happens is structured in a way that is not going to be helpful to us. It’s a system that helped produce 2016 and can reproduce the same in 2020.
As individuals we need to be conscious of how that system operates so that we don’t play into its efforts to sow disinformation and apathy, reinforcing the white power structure.
