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When Posts Collide It seems my previous post on the futility of internet debates wasn’t merely an isolated observation, but a bout of prescience. After conferring with my colleagues at MuslimMatters a few weeks back, we decided to cross-post the piece on my childhood friend who’s serving in the US army. Given the subject matter, I [...]
Continue reading about The Internet IRL – Why Public Discourse Fails
Have you checked out the internet lately? It’s pretty brutal. People get riled up over the most nominally controversial topics (the possibility of a new iPad, for example). Skip over to a piece with a still benign subject, but a (now-a-days) emotionally charged object, and the discussion gets even more rancorous (like this article on celebrating the end [...]
Continue reading about Ever try to have a civil internet debate? Here’s why it didn’t work.
