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firing people for tweets creates perverse incentives, in that it signals to onlookers both that tweets are things that should produce dramatic reactions and that they can project those reactions to affect further dramatic reactions. it's teaching people the wrong lesson
you don't just feel the way you feel; you learn how to feel, in part, from society. you're startled when a stranger says the eff word because you've been taught that word is startling coming from a stranger. nobody tells you this; you learn from observation.
i generally err toward the idea that, for a number of reasons, tweets should be given a relatively wide latitude. the platform isn't designed to provoke a person's most considered, deeply held ideas; on the contrary, it's designed for superficial, abrupt, reactive thoughts.
so the formula we have here is: take a platform optimized to elicit people's most ill-considered gut reactions in the shortest possible form, and premise totalizing evaluations of character upon those dumb utterances, with consequences to match
if we're trying to figure out what formula best produces justice in the world, that one doesn't seem like it to me, which is why i mainly just post jokes and pics and the inane nonsense floating through my head on here: to do otherwise is to incur risk.
which isn't to say twitter is altogether bad; it's not, or it doesn't have to be. it's just to say that we've got to contextualize it properly in order to use it properly, and right now we seem to be doing neither of those things. anyway back to shitposting
