{"id":35315,"date":"2018-06-21T06:01:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T11:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35315"},"modified":"2018-06-21T06:01:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T11:01:25","slug":"big-brother-facebook-drawing-down-the-iron-curtain-on-yankeedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35315","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother Facebook: Drawing Down the Iron Curtain on Yankeedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Brother Facebook: Drawing Down the Iron Curtain on Yankeedom<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Leading a double life<\/strong><\/p>\n

When my partner, Barbara, first opened an account on Facebook, she used it in a way that most people in Yankeedom use it. Her network was an eclectic assortment of family, current and former workmates, new and old friends, neighbors and relatives living in other parts of the country. Most of what was posted on this account were pictures of kids, dogs and kitty cats, vacations, dinner outings, jokes \u2013 nothing too controversial. Like most members of Yankeedom, religion and politics were off limits. However, there was a kind of politically unconscious assumption operating that liberal values prevailed and that somehow the Democratic Party embodied those values. I nicknamed her Facebook account the \u201cSuzy Cream Cheese\u201d account after the Mothers of Invention\u2019s album because it only dealt with surface preoccupations.<\/p>\n

As the most recent US presidential primaries heated up and people took sides about Hillary, Bernie and Jill Stein, the Suzy Cream Cheese page started to be \u201cnot nice\u201d. The political unconscious became conscious. The assumption was that all women \u2013 in the name of feminism \u2013 should vote for Hillary. My partner thought this was a very shallow understanding of feminism and posted an article she wrote that was published in a number of online radical newsletters titled, \u201cFeminism is Bigger Than Gender: Why I\u2019ll Be Happy in Hell Without Hillary<\/a>.\u201d Oh dear. \u00a0After she posted that article on Facebook, she got the cold shoulder and lost a couple of friends. Around that time she opened up a second \u201cpolitical\u201d Facebook account and started adding to it a whole new group of far-left friends and acquaintances. She continued posting \u201csuitable for family viewing\u201d comments with her Suzy Cream Cheese account while posting and responding to socialist and communist posts on her political account.<\/p>\n

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Big Brother Facebook: Drawing Down the Iron Curtain on Yankeedom Leading a double life When my partner, Barbara, first opened an account on Facebook, she used it in a way that most people in Yankeedom use it. Her network was an eclectic assortment of family, current and former workmates, new and old friends, neighbors and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2472,20592,5493,1493,1169,827],"class_list":["post-35315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-big-brother","tag-bruce-lerro","tag-counterpunch","tag-facebook","tag-social-media","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35316,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35315\/revisions\/35316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}