{"id":93981,"date":"2021-01-28T09:38:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=93981"},"modified":"2021-01-28T09:38:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T14:38:44","slug":"she-speaks-the-walls-and-screens-between-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/she-speaks-the-walls-and-screens-between-us\/","title":{"rendered":"She Speaks: The walls and screens between us | Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the hardest parts about writing an opinion column is that once your general vibe and politics become known, you stop reaching the skeptics.<\/p>\n

People who regularly read this column\u2014the ones who used to mention it in yoga class or stop me on the street to talk about the latest piece\u2014people who feel strongly about social justice, Indigenous sovereignty, environmentalism, anti-fascism, BLM, women\u2019s lib, these people I can count on. Thank you, in advance, for reading.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been watching the comments sections from afar for a while. Comment sections are a great indicator of where we are as a society. Are the comments generally informative, supportive, in good faith? Seeking to build connection and common ground? Or are they a devolving mess of cruelty, ad hominem and other argumentative fallacies?<\/p>\n

Let me tell you, I have never seen such a black hole as we have now when it comes to social media. People seem to feel absurdly comfortable calling each other names, inventing the other person\u2019s argument so it\u2019s easier to defeat, and just general bad form.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a bit of a stickler for a fair fight, so I hate to see this happen. But division is more lucrative than unity\u2014it keeps you coming back to the websites. And whatever terrible things happen in the next few years, of which I fear there will be plenty, money will only serve to worsen the situation. The well of capitalism has been well and truly salted. But that death grip will be something, and in this case it\u2019s on the internet itself.<\/p>\n

I try to avoid echo chambers, and I don\u2019t want to write to one, either. I love that the people reading this may not agree with everything, or even most, of what I say\u2014but they still back my message of community and kindness. Whatever the politics, unless you have kindness and community as your foundation and you practise it, they will fail.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, they will fail spectacularly, as we watch, rapt and horrified, from our vantage point.<\/p>\n

So how do we reach the unreachables?<\/p>\n

I watched The Social Dilemma<\/em> as everyone with social media should have to do as part of the terms and conditions no one reads.<\/p>\n

Though I wasn\u2019t shocked at the revelations regarding the strategic corporate intention to sow discord, the sheer scale and spread of this problem is what makes it feel insurmountable.<\/p>\n

But it can\u2019t be\u2014we can\u2019t leave our now-primary methods of communication to tech bros who learned ‘the humanities’ from porn and think they\u2019re oppressed because they\u2019re too obnoxious to date. Those are not the hands in which I want my private information.<\/p>\n

That said, the concern that I\u2019ve learned in the past few years is the algorithm with an appetite for extremism. YouTube is the epitome of the saying, ‘there\u2019s no such thing as bad press’. On YouTube, the algorithm autoplays the next-closest video to the one you watched, without going politically left. Only right wing, only more conservative, more inflammatory. The algorithm never offers you neutral, never offers something a little tamer or less out there.<\/p>\n

Say you start your day watching my feminist videos\u2014if you let the app autoplay the next videos, by the end of the day you\u2019ll be downloading QAnon info dumps and wondering if it\u2019s okay to buy a MAGA hat if it\u2019s made in China.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m kidding, mostly. But that algorithm is bad news. It supplies you with confirmation bias\u2014you only see what you and your friends already care about. Your thoughts and ideas are not considered extreme, your circles mostly agree with your politics. It\u2019s very easy to think everyone sees the world the way you do.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s true for you and me, then it\u2019s also true in far-right, radicalizing circles. The tech world is far from neutral. Technology is all about the hands it\u2019s placed in. And anger equals engagement, which equals dollars. The algorithm, and the smartie-pantses behind it, doesn\u2019t care about your social media experience. Only that the experience continues. Whatever it takes to draw you back, and they learned that fear works better than contentedness when it comes to user retention.<\/p>\n

After all, users who are content use social media as a tool or not at all. Those are not the targeted demographic.<\/p>\n

With all this stacked against us, with so many deliberate, disorienting barriers, how can we possibly reach each other? How can I hear you, through all this noise? How can you hear me?<\/p>\n

How do we burst past the artificial barriers that crappy algorithms and money-minded megalomaniacs stack in front of us? How can we start to build bridges when all forms of media are throwing grenades at the footings?<\/p>\n

How do we reach the unreachables?<\/p>\n

Corporations, right-wing organizations, and Silicon Valley all know how. The Trump win and near-win were, in part, so shocking because we missed the escalation. Echo chambers, so you\u2019re less exposed to anyone who would vote differently than you. But a big part of the win was the strategy of Republican voters. Cohesively, a huge number agreed not to talk politics with friends or family, and not tell pollsters how they voted.<\/p>\n

This collective strategy is something the right has always relied on, and something the left sorely lacks. We have no united front and in fact usually spent our limited energies fighting each other to be the Most Perfectest Leftist instead of fighting a common enemy, of which there are many and growing.<\/p>\n

But if I\u2019m in my echo chamber, you\u2019re in yours, and the ones who don\u2019t normally read She Speaks are in another, how can we understand each other? If I\u2019m being told lies about you, and you\u2019re being told lies about me, how can we get to the truth without talking to each other?<\/p>\n

Calls for unity are, themselves, a tricky business. I\u2019m certainly not telling Black people to ‘unite’ with racists, Indigenous people to seek togetherness with settlers, or abuse victims to forgive abusers or anything so callous. Understanding is always preferable to assumption or projection.<\/p>\n

But I do have a bit of a call to action. The next comment section you see that makes you upset\u2014frustrated or annoyed or enraged\u2014feel that feeling, deeply. Make space for it, because it\u2019s real and wants to be felt.<\/p>\n

And then channel it, purely, into responding in a way that brings you closer to seeing the world you want to see. Anger is a great emotion, because it\u2019s so translatable. You choose what you do with it. Do you give it away? Do you hoard it? Or do you transform it into action, and change the world?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s up to us.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s up to us.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s up to us.<\/p>\n

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Kathleen May is a writer, speaker, and activist. Her column, She Speaks, has appeared in the Huntsville Doppler since 2018. Her work in our community includes co-founding the long-running Huntsville Women\u2019s Group, volunteering with Muskoka Parry Sound Sexual Assault Services, and her role as a front-line counsellor at the women\u2019s shelter. Kathleen is a 2018 Woman of Distinction for Social Activism and Community Development<\/a><\/span>. She was longlisted for the 2020 CBC Short Story Prize<\/a><\/span>, short-listed for the 2019 CBC Nonfiction Prize<\/a><\/span>, and received the Best Author award for her 2018 submission at the Muskoka Novel Marathon, a fundraiser for literacy services. When she isn\u2019t writing, she\u2019s designing a tiny house which she intends to be the impetus for a sustainable women\u2019s land co-operative in Muskoka.<\/em><\/p>\n

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