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ProQuest representative on fake news. We're discussing how a pro-gun professor made up statistics, created sock puppet accounts, and fabricated research to put forward his political position #UKSG18On Internet Archive
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He attributes the rise of fake news partially to the primacy of emotions as important in contemporary discourse #UKSG18Permalink On Internet Archive
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I'd actually argue that that attribution itself is part of a Western neoliberal sphere of discourse (knowledges-in-the-plural) which uses 'rationality' as a way to limit the acceptable bounds of discourse #UKSG18Permalink On Internet Archive
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This has taken a turn into an emotions-are-bad kind of chat that very much falls into fallacies of the inherent value and primacy of Western logic, objectivity, rationality, etc. #UKSG18Permalink On Internet Archive
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It's a very short jump from emotions-are-bad-in-politics to we-can-change-Nazis-minds-by-calmly-reasoning-with-them #UKSG18Permalink On Internet Archive
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During the break, I clarified this in a irl chat so doing the same here: under white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, 'rationality' is used as a mode of discourse to marginalise non-white, non-men communities and to justify perpetuating the status quo #UKSG18Permalink On Internet Archive
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When we talk about moving away from discourse of emotions, we're talking about ignoring those voices that don't fit into dominant paradigms of Western logic i.e. non-Western cultures, LGBT voices, women's voices, etc. #UKSG18Permalink On Internet Archive
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The idea that Trump got elected because people talk about emotions too much (reductive for sake of characters) was a disappointing conclusion to an otherwise interesting talk on 'fake news' and information #UKSG18Permalink On Internet Archive