Your #Empathy is Killing Us

source: https://medium.com/@mushon/your-empathy-is-killing-us-1a50a4fc0488

To judge by social #media, the world is divided between good and evil. No nuances, no context, no gray areas. Thus, to truly eradicate evil one must make a clear cut and choose a side: you’re either with the victim or you’re with the perpetrator.

Sadly, this blanket refusal to acknowledge complexity is intensified by the algorithmically induced cycles of engagement / enragement. The more extreme your position, the more tweetable or instagramable it becomes, and the more likely it is to be shared and go viral. And conversely, the more nuanced and devoid of catchy slogans your stated position is, the more it gets suppressed by the #algorithm.

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