Sarah McBride
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Sarah McBride’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, again, we're not in this place because of our community or our movement, but clearly we aren't in this place because we weren't shaming people enough, because we weren't canceling people enough, because we weren't yelling at people enough, because we weren't denouncing anti-trans positions enough.
I think the dynamic with social media is that the most outrageous, the most extreme, the most condemnatory content is what gets amplified the most.
It's what gets liked and retweeted the most.
And people mistake getting likes and retweets as a sign of effectiveness.
And those are two fundamentally different things.
And I think that whether it's subconscious or even conscious, rewarding of unproductive conversations has completely undermined the capacity for us as individuals or politically for us to have conversations that persuade, that open people's hearts and minds, that meet them where they are.
And I think the other dynamic that we have with social media
is that there's sort of two kinds of people on social media.
The vast majority of people are doom scrollers.
They just go on and they scroll their social media.
20% maybe are doom posters.
10% on the far right, 10% on the far left.
The people who are so strident and angry that they're compelled to post.
And that content gets elevated.
But what that has resulted in for the 80% who are just doom scrollers is this false perception of reality.
Take a person, let's say their center left, and it gives them a false perception of everyone on the left believes this, and it pulls them that way.
And then it gives them a false perception that everyone on the right believes the most extreme version of the right.
And it creates this false binary extreme perception of availability bias because all of the content we're seeing is reflective of just the 20 percent.
And it's warped our perception of reality.
It's warped our perception of who people are and where the public is.
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