I don’t watch any TV & any mainstream articles I do see are filtered via my Twitter echo chamber. I sometimes wonder if I’d have been a mask wearing Karen if I had been an MSM consumer. 🤔I don’t think I would have though as I did a great course in critical thinking & media...
...back in the day that taught me how to question the narrative & see how language is used to position the reader or viewer to think or feel a certain way about what is being presented to them. If we ever get out of this it is imperative that the general public is taught to...
...take a step back from the information they are being fed & hold it up to be criticised. That is the way forward, not censorship. If you have kids & you do watch tv together I would also suggest encouraging them not to be passive listeners, get them to ask questions & talk...
...back to the TV & you & discuss with you what they think the message they are receiving is & then think of ways to rebut that message even if you agree with it. What would the other side say? How would they disagree or disprove what is being presented. Over time this type of...
...critical analysis behaviour can become completely automatic & breeds empathy with those who disagree with you as well. I might seem harsh to people who disagree with me on here sometimes but that is just me trying different tactics seeing what might work in...
...an effort to wake people up or change people’s minds. Ordinarily in real life I don’t like to be rude (but I can be blunt) and I only ever take that route on here because I cannot assume that people who positively respond to those who use insults to back their arguments will..
...respond positively to politeness!? What do you think, is empathy & kindness the better way or is social media a different beast? It’s complicated of course because of the paid propagandists on here too.
That's weird I got this response and when I went to reply I couldn't, when I clicked on the account I didn't get a blocked notification but a 404 message - that page doesn't exist. The choice of the word empathy rather than sympathy was intentional. 
