2013 Was the Year of Outrage

Maybe it’s more important to worry about things that matter, instead of worrying about the ethical implications of twerking.

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There was scarcely a week in 2013 that didn’t have its own tempest in a social media teacup. What’s more is that these storms came to define a whole issue in a single phrase — or photo — killing all the nuance of the issue in one fell swoop. Indeed, according to TinyMixTapes contributor Benjamin Pearson, the social media tools defined the nature of our conversations.

If the topic was race, the conversation was about Trayvon Martin.

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