Social Media is Social Life

What if social media is not dangerous, but the arguments against it are?

Tia Levings.

More than a decade ago, Tia Levings took her five children and escaped torture and bondage—a savagely violent marriage and a dehumanizing Christian fundamentalist cult. Among the horrors that were policy in her sect were “blanket training” (in which infants are disciplined with a switch), malnourishment, deliberate under-education, sibling molestation, and isolation in a “home church.”

Levings, whose book The Well-Trained Wife comes out next year, now agitates against rightwing Christian indoctrination, religious fraud, abusive homeschooling systems, and violent patriarchal arrangements. All this activism you might expect. But there’s something else. Levings also vehemently opposes the stigmatizing of social media. 

This seems like a weird one. Doesn’t everybody think social media is, in some intractable sense, evil?