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Offline: Roxane Gay on Why People Are So Awful Online

Pod Save America

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Is There Something Else About Online Spaces?

In your timespiece, you laid out a theory as to why people are so nasty on line. It's fueled by what you call a the hope lessness that many people feel when we consider the state of the world. What do you think it is about online spaces that make us feel, at least initially, more powerful or in control? I think there's just this lack of boundaries that people find empowering.

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