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“Historian Francis Parker simplistically summed up the situation when he said, “Spanish civilization crushed the Indian; English civilization scorned and neglected him; French civilization embraced and cherished him.”6 It”
― Todd Shaw, Uneven Roads: An Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. —Herbert Simon, Designing Organization for an Information Rich World”
― Tobias Rose-Stockwell, Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It

“But that process is as much determined by public opinion as by platform owners. The moral container was only set after a public outrage. In this way, the expression of outrage is very much a part of setting boundaries around what we allow platforms to do. Outrage forces moderators to set the defaults.”
― Tobias Rose-Stockwell, Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It

“Empathy always plays a distinct role in propaganda, explicitly asking the viewers to feel the suffering of the enemy’s victims and calling on them to respond with condemnation and moral outrage.”
― Tobias Rose-Stockwell, Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—And What We Can Do About It