The Promised Podcast discusses the tragedy of a government bureaucrat who — accused on Facebook of racism and discrimination against an African-American woman seeking his help — shot himself in the head this week, unleashing a maelstrom of angst and an fun-house mirror infinite regress of backlash-to-backlash-to-backlash. Is the power of social network rage something we need to tamp?

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