How the Jim Crow internet is pushing back against Black Lives Matter

[SecularMotion]

Police killings of African-Americans on social media have become the visual hallmark of our time. This decade will be recalled through blurry cellphone and dash-cam videos of shootings. But how will it be remembered?

From my scholarship on visual culture, most recently on the visual tactics of political protest, it is clear that this marks a transition that I call the rise of the Jim Crow internet. It’s not all of the internet, of course, but a self-referential, wide-ranging and increasingly influential slice of it, from Breitbart to Blue Lives Matter and all over Twitter.

Visible on cable TV, Google searches, Twitter and other social media, the Jim Crow internet is challenging the way race in general and police violence in particular are understood, pushing back against the gains made by Black Lives Matter.

Who wins this struggle over cultural and political meaning may determine our political future.

https://theconversation.com/how-the-jim-crow-internet-is-pushing-back-against-black-lives-matter-65934

[underthematrix]

1. Thank you. I tweeted it to my followers

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Poor title. It's not the internet, it's Jim Crow ON the internet. . . . nt

[nolabels]

3. And remember former slave owning US Presidents were always nice to their property

The jest of the article is about people who surf the net and congregate to websites according to the way they want view and BELIEVE things are.

Actually the title seems quite apt, but in kind of a reverse way it could apply to us folk who might call ourselves the Left.

We are all kind of turning into those proverbial ostriches, we hide our heads in the screen and only see what we want to see.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. "gist" not "jest", congregate "at", want "to" view

[nolabels]

8. Thanks for the english lesson

I was not very good at school and never was much of a reader but still i always liked to hear people have or had to say about almost anything they had on their mind

Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning
Much of Noam Chomsky’s revolution in linguistics—including its account of the way we learn languages—is being overturned
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-chomsky-s-theory-of-language-learning/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Very interesting article. Thanks!

I'm tutoring English to three adult Syrian refugees, and it is interesting to see how they all make the same classes of mistakes but have different approaches to learning.

[nolabels]

11. I have a roomate to who is from Syria

He has been in the country about thirteen years and also has what seems like inborn skills of breaking down language to get to the crux to what someone is talking about. Syntax, punctuation and all the other skills with proper usage might sometimes get pushed out of the way if it gets in the way of someone wanting to convey a message (see tRump). Without a king or other supreme force to stop them then schooling would be the only force left to keep english in current form, intact. And tell me again why republicans would want to target schools, learning environments and science in an effort to get things to run their way?

Why Donald Trump's broken English is actually his secret weapon
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiFspDDvavPAhVO42MKHWiPB5wQFggwMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheweek.com%2Farticles%2F608702%2Fwhy-donald-trumps-broken-english-actually-secret-weapon&usg=AFQjCNFX_bsoVfI-8MgAaRDaMSfXsqvqrw&sig2=z9RMqDrH5zpj4AM4lB0FBg

[dembotoz]

4. gop has made it ok to be a bigot again

[oberliner]

6. Stupidest article I've read in a while

The internet is actually the anti-thesis of Jim Crow.

Never has it been so easy for so many to share their opinions anonymously (or not) with others around the world with almost no barriers whatsoever.

And one can do so without disclosing one's race or any other personal details.

[SecularMotion]

7. Kick

[harrose]

9. There ought to be laws against Rethugs being on the Internet.

Let 'em stand on street corners and yell to their hearts content to exercise their free speech.,