Spotify, SoundCloud and other platforms have pulled the song, but its spread underscores the challenges tech platforms face in removing content that violate their policies.
Disinformation is a cancer. In the absence of a shared nucleus of objective facts, all kinds of bullshit tumors fester. The horrors of Nazi genocide get downplayed, and the process of finding scapegoats to blame for economic problems starts again.
Social media has enabled alternative facts and history. The lack of education gives fertile soil for stupidity to flourish. Desperate economic conditions give the motivation. Struggling, angry people can easily be brainwashed to blame other victims of the system, rather than the billionaires causing everyone’s suffering.
Or white supremacy is an appealing ideology for sections of the global North populations who would rather enact massive violence to ensure a comfortable life for themselves than join a highly disruptive movement that threatens to knock them down several pegs on the world totem pole.
Disinformation is a cancer. In the absence of a shared nucleus of objective facts, all kinds of bullshit tumors fester. The horrors of Nazi genocide get downplayed, and the process of finding scapegoats to blame for economic problems starts again.
Social media has enabled alternative facts and history. The lack of education gives fertile soil for stupidity to flourish. Desperate economic conditions give the motivation. Struggling, angry people can easily be brainwashed to blame other victims of the system, rather than the billionaires causing everyone’s suffering.
Or white supremacy is an appealing ideology for sections of the global North populations who would rather enact massive violence to ensure a comfortable life for themselves than join a highly disruptive movement that threatens to knock them down several pegs on the world totem pole.
For consideration: https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/