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We need to talk about online haters butchering our vital culture moments

Ezinne Ukoha
8 min readJun 26, 2019

These heightened times have transformed the climate of cultural exchange into a pressure cooker that carries the threatening whistle of combustion if the heat builds up to a tempo that can’t be civilly contained.

Social media platforms notoriously present opportunities to defiantly state strong opinions with either the approval or disapproval of engagers, who are on standby, armed with the tools for “dragging” or threads of graphic memes, depicting the general consensus of active issues that are never resolved.

This is due to how we inherently respond to antagonistic headlines that are formulated to unleash chaos rather than encourage the appropriate dissection or even celebration of cultural relevancy.

Lena Waithe remains soaked by douses of hot water after her interview with The New York Times was swiftly converted into the delectable item for scavengers who don’t have to actually read articles before providing their scorching summations.

There has been a brewing controversy over one of the rising stars of Showtime’s The Chi, Jason Mitchell. The embattled actor was on the fast track to stardom, before his abrupt derailment by disturbing accusations of sexual misconduct by actress Tiffany Boone, who was permitted an early exit from her contract…

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