The Great Twitter Wars of 2018

Jane Coaston and Dylan Matthews join Ezra to discuss the Sarah Jeong fracas, the Ben Shapiro-Mark Duplass meltdown, the problems with Twitter, the ways partisan dehumanize each other, and more.

References and further reading:

The context for Sarah Jeong's "goblins" tweet

The context for Sarah Jeong's "cut white people" tweet 

German Lopez's piece on what makes people less racist

Brian Resnick's piece on reducing prejudice

William F. Buckley supporting segregation

Zack Beauchamp's piece in defense of Sarah Jeong

Ezra's demographics piece

David French's piece on Sarah Jeong

W.E.B Du Bois' The Soul's of Black Folks

Ashley Jardina's Washington Post piece on white identity

Jamelle Bouie's newsletter

Political Tribes by Amy Chua

Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Dr. Martin Luther King

White paper Party Animals? Party Identity and Dehumanization

That time Dylan got owned on Twitter by Sen. Ben Sasse