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**** NYTimes: We Don’t Even Have to Look Up From Our Phones to Hate Each Other. Rj

We Don’t Even Have to Look Up From Our Phones to Hate Each Other nyti.ms/3NWBnRz

“In an initial flush of romantic enthusiasm, social media and the communications revolution were thought to herald a brave new world of empowered citizens and unmediated, participatory democracy. Yet just a few years later, we have shifted to dystopian anxiety about social media’s tendencies to fuel political polarization, reward extremism, encourage a culture of outrage, and generally contribute to the degradation of civic discourse about politics.”
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NYTimes: Who Can Write About What? A Conversation With Roxane Gay and Jay Caspian Kang.

Who Can Write About What? A Conversation With Roxane Gay and Jay Caspian Kang. nyti.ms/3NWBnB3

Two writers debate writing across identity lines — and how to respond when an author gets it really wrong.

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When does creative license become cultural appropriation? Take “American Dirt” and “The Help,” two books by white authors that drew criticism for their portrayals of characters of color. Artists’ job is to imagine and create, but what do we do when they get it wrong?

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