@WajahatAli "I was returning from the Aspen Institute festival to my opinionating job in Manhattan when i decided to stop and speak to the truck drivers and dishwashers who voted for Trump"
"Why do you oppress me so" I asked innocently
To my shock they proceeded to say obnoxious things
@WajahatAli I composed myself, remembering my UC Berkeley theater arts training, and the deep insight into lives of working-class Americans it had provided.
"Have you considered checking your privilege?" I offered
I will then abused w/ a litany of economic claims clearly needing debunking
@WajahatAli I almost began to regret my effort tweeting on their behalf in support of the Affordable Care Act. These people had no gratitude at all. They kept shouting something about "deductibles", which i recognized as a likely racist-dog-whistle, but which i generously ignored.
@WajahatAli Imagine my shock on discovering some of these supporters were people of color!?
"Have you confronted your internalized racism?" I challenged.
"We prefer lower taxes" they lied to themselves. Truly, my capacity for charity was being sorely tested.
Then i put it down again. Clearly i had already done the so-called "Better Way", and it obviously didn't work.
All that remained was to write off large swaths of the population as an unreachable mass of undifferentiated moral inferiors.
@WajahatAli So, Take it from me, expert in reasoning & persuasion:
there is no point trying to win over Trump's base.
The fact a Democratic candidate for President recently won
election, peeling off a % of exactly the people I denounce, should be considered irrelevant statistical fluke
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From what I can tell, @youtube is engaged in slow strategic process of slowly eliminating independent content from its platform in order to create space for old-media networks/studios that can concentrate+maximize longer-term ad revenue
@YouTube ... e.g. there are 100 niche History channels on YT, each with specific style and focus, and it fragments audiences
How much easier it would be if it were 3 or 4, and if those channels had mountains of content to re-purpose, and longstanding relationships w/ major advertisers
@YouTube What recourse independent channels have seems limited; YT doesn't provide any mechanism other than 'appeal' to channels w/ demonitized content. As long as process is dragged out, it still cuts off potential growth.