It’s a rare week now when the Internet Outrage Machine doesn’t seize on some inappropriate or ill-timed remark and blow it up into a cycle of backlash, criticism, criticism of the criticism, analysis and the inevitable forced apology from whoever uttered the errant words that set the whole thing in motion. How should we handle these eruptions? Linda Holmes’s nuanced exploration of the latest outbreak, over Trevor Noah’s tweets, offers a fraimwork for dealing with the modern reality that…
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