Did Twitter break us or merely reveal our brokenness?

There are worse tweets in that thread. The generous interpretation of the responses here is that the folks never opened the article and assumed that I was somehow positing some superiority of small towns over big cities. That’s probably mostly true, but it’s also a bit too charitable. There’s increasingly a desire on social media to turn every single story into a politicized culture war. So, if I write here’s what life was like for a different part of America, if it’s the wrong part of America — if it resembles that dreaded “diner in Middle America” that so many commentators spent 2016 through 2020 mocking — it earns the reaction: Those people are no better than us!

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No one said they were.

So, is this something Twitter causes, because it makes it so easy to infer someone is making a point that you dislike? Or do we all just hate each other, and Twitter allows us to say it out loud?

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