# Reading Responses (Set 2)

- Checklist for a [good reading response](https://reagle.org/joseph/zwiki/Teaching/Best_Practices/Learning/Writing_Responses.html) of 250-350 words
- [ ] Begin with a punchy start.
- [ ] Mention specific ideas, details, and examples from the text and earlier classes.
- [ ] Offer something novel that you can offer towards class participation.
- [ ] Check for writing for clarity, concision, cohesion, and coherence.
- [ ] Send to professor with “hackmd” in the subject, with URL of this page and markdown of today’s response.

## Reading responses 5 out of 5

### Reading Response #1: March 27 - Bemused

They say getting the last word in is best, because it must mean you won the argument, right? In an internet-based world where the conversation never truly stops, the next best option quickly becomes the one *everyone* sees----the first comment. Especially given the speed at which people often skim through comments, reviews, and the like, being one of the few that can fit in the top area that everyone sees makes the difference for you in terms of how many people see you, but also in proving as a validation and consensus agreement with the media with which you are interacting. With the internet only getting fast and faster and more optimized to keep us scrolling to see as many ads as possible (or annoy us enough to pay to remove them), mistakes, and poorly thought out messages, are all the more common. Having spent much more time on twitter than I'd like to admit, I find this idea very relatable in that its very easy to have something little tick you off and rebut it and end up digging yourself and the original poster into a hole much deeper than either of you ever needed.

While some posts are made in haste, lack of thought, or true malicious intent, they all often meet the same responses. With multiple high-profile cases of people making tweets that are seemingly in bad taste simply coming from lack of awareness, it can often be hard to tell who's covering their tracks in the face of backlash and who was genuinely unaware. I have personally witnessed this happen when a Dutch woman ended a simple tweet about losing to a Brazilian in a tournament with an orangutan emoji, which sparked outrage due to deeply rooted racism involving calling Brazilians monkeys. She quickly deleted the tweet and pointed to previous tweets in which she had used various animal emoji, including other monkey emoji in clearly non-racial contexts, but the damage was already done, with Brazilian fans loudly cheering when she was eventually fully knocked out of the tournament. The line between excuse and truth is often blurry, but there is unfortunately only ever so much that can be done to see inside the brains of others.

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