Dear White GOP Dude in My Friend’s Facebook Comments

You don’t know what you want. But I do.

Holly Hearn
Sep 3, 2018 · 5 min read
Child in chain mail holding a sword. Photo by Andrii Podilnyk on Unsplash

My social media sphere is an echo chamber. I used to actively avoid this, by hanging on to Facebook friends with radically different views to my own. I thought I had a responsibility to protect myself from forgetting that my outlook might not necessarily be the majority view.

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Holly Hearn

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Poet and author across several genres, with a love of photography and gardening. Find out more: https://linktr.ee/hearningcurve

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