The United Nations reports that the social media environment has become increasingly toxic & hostile to women. As the report concludes:
'Gender rights rollback is both enabled & exacerbated by technologies which – by design – amplify misogynistic hate speech for profit'...
The Q, is what can be done; it is anti-democratic for Govt.s to shrug & claim that Big Tech needs to sort out its own mess... we're waaaay beyond that being a viable solution!
@ChrisMayLA6 It is very worrying that the western world completely ignores young men. They can be just as ill treated, often worse, as women online.
But as always in the west, the hate is strong against young white men. Often are they told since birth, they have no value, and that only women have a right to work. Not strange at all, that most of the shootings are done by men who lost all hope.
Hmmm... that would not be my reading; I'd see it more as a class issue; the regular degrading & marginalisation of young male working class existence....
@ChrisMayLA6 Hmm. After thinking about it, I think I agree that the children of the elite are excluded, but besides that, I see a lot of young experiencing this, regardless of if they are working class or middle class.
In fact, I would argue that the distinction working class and middle class has lost all meaning in modern sweden (which is where I made this observation). The mobility between them is to easy, and there are no barriers, also, the taxes are so high, that it is rather the
@ChrisMayLA6 working class professions that make more money if you count untaxed money, than the middle class.
In general, as an individualist, I think the class concept causes more problems that it fixes, but I think for the sake of discussion a distinction can be made between the ruling class (politicians, (some) nobility and captains of industry) and the rest of the population.
and here, Sweden & the UK are much more similar
And here I think contemporary Sweden & the UK are very very different....
@ChrisMayLA6 In which ways? When I hear the words "working class" I get Dickens-vibes. Since the UK has belonged to the EU, and have been forced to adopt certain EU values and regulations over the years, I would imagine that the Dickens version does not exist in the UK, just like it does not exist in sweden.
Well, sadly you'd be wrong; in the last decades much of the waring existence in the UK, at the lower wage end, has been driven back to something more like the C19th (albeit with a better level of benefits grudgingly on offer); but from zero house working contract & the (so-called) gig economy, to issues around housing tenure, working & living conditions looks in some dimensions very Dickensian - although recent reforms of Tenant rights have (again) reversed that trend
@ChrisMayLA6 Interesting. But if that is true, then surely we'd see a rapid growth of the left, just like socialism sprang out of industrialization of the 18th and 19th century?
If that does not happen, then perhaps, the gig economy actually brings more benfits to people than we think?
After all, it's an excellent way for people to make extra money, and a great entry point for the least educated on the job market. Remove those possibilities, and the lowest educated will be sentenced to welfa
@ChrisMayLA6 re for life, since no one wants their services at the price point they are offered.
Well Gramsci has an excellent analysis of why the growth of the Left doesn't happen even under such circumstances - focussed on how we 'understand' our lives though the norms & ideas of the wealthy..... in the UK the continuing dismissal of working class culture (albeit sometimes countered locally) contributes to this constrained vision of the possible
@ChrisMayLA6 What is Gramsci?
@ChrisMayLA6 Ah, thank you very much.
@ChrisMayLA6 In my experience, the children of the ruling class are sent to boarding schools, in sweden or abroad, and are more shielded from this, since they already have full access to their parents networks which gives them good salaries and positions of power and prestige early in life.