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  1. May 2020
    1. For Ms. Coleman, the real mainstream moment for online vigilantism was in 2015, when an image of a dentist standing over a lion he had shot swiftly spread on social media. The lion was Cecil, a well-known conservation icon. Animal lovers seethed. The actress Mia Farrow even posted the dentist’s home address on Twitter.

      this is a wonderful example of a way that social media can highlight the cruelty of the world and bring attention to people's gross actions and words so that they cannot get away with it any longer without going checked

    1. in 2013 when he observed that internet memes, unlike genes, were actively manipulated by human creativity to appear different from the original.

      this is an important point because someone may create a meme, but others can continue to make changes to it to make it different to the original, which is both a way to express creativity and a way to take away someone else's creativity

  2. Apr 2020
    1. A self-professed gabacha, Jeanine Cummins, wrote a book that sucks. Big time.

      The thing that surprised me most was how blunt she was! I loved how straight to the point she was and her use of profanity really emphasized her opinions. It was clearly an opinion piece, but her bluntness made her passion really stand out, which I found to be really engaging.

    1. But maybe you don’t know CNBC, or maybe you see this news from someone not verified, or verified but not as a reporter. How will you know whether to share this? Because you know you’re DYING to share it and you can’t wait much longer

      This is an important aspect of the article because when it comes down to it, something outlandish may not be true, so it is important to confirm the legitimacy of the source and find additional sources to back up the information in the article.

    1. The term Latinx isn't elitist, it's inclusive.

      "The term Latinx isn't elitist, it's inclusive. But since we're talking about language, the term elitist has become a lazy way to disregard something that makes you uncomfortable."

    1. Despite social justice leadership receiving an increasing amount of attention by researchers, a methodological imbalance with qualitative inquiries dominating the existing empirical literature base persists.

      advancements in social justice