In our conversations about echo chambers and the necessity of speaking across difference, we often forget the importance — and difficulty — of disagreeing with the people most like us. On what's lost when we don't make that effort.
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Social media gets a bad rap for perpetuating vitriol and echo chambers, but it can also be an platform for our common and civic life — helping us understand people with different backgrounds and opinions, while also allowing us to create communities of our own.
It takes power and privilege to dictate the terms of a cultural conversation. Miguel Clark Mallet writes in defense of backtalk and the critical perspectives it brings forward.
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