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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Echo chamber is a loaded phrase now?
Oh for ****s sake.
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No, it isn't a loaded phrase or dog whistle phrase.
My bone to pick with your use of it though is that it implies the student movement isn't interested in conflicting ideas or wants to be protected by them. Granted, the media safe space fiasco provides legitimate evidence to that interpretation (though the people in the viral video weren't self-appointed allies to Concerned Student 1950 & weren't necessarily acting how the group would have liked them to, and CS1950 has dropped their media policy as of today).
But they ARE getting contrasting, opposing ideas. They are hearing those ideas loud & clear. Consider how much of the movement has been broadcasted through social media. All of the groups members (and many of their direct supporters, notably Mizzou football players) have had people in their Twitter mentions for days and days. They aren't closed off from outside ideas to the degree that "echo chamber" suggests. That they dropped their media policy is evidence that either 1.) they learned from a mistake, or 2.) that the felt pressure enough to make a change that they'd rather not make. Either way, a true echo chamber would have prevented that change from happening.