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		dredmorbius on Feb 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life Scott Alexander's "The Toxoplasm of Rage" (h/t mlp at Ello) describes how Tumblr is apparently the perfect storm of outrage: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage More from Merideth: http://maradydd.livejournal.com/530110.html The phenomenon reminds me quite strongly of Orwell's Two Minutes Hate from 1984 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate

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