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Offline: Elizabeth Bruenig on Forgiving Trolls and Strangers

Pod Save America

CHAPTER

The Pandemic Has Made It Worse

The internet also has this weird effect of making you feel very close to power, when in fact, you're quite distant from it. And so that leads to a discharging of emotions that's not commensurate with the situation - even though it feels like it is. All kinds of people become symbols of of situations, laws, conflicts that then provoke this discharge of emotion.

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