Please Help Reverse This - eviltoast
  • nexguy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    People are definitely not more bigoted and ignorant. They just feel it’s now safer to express their bigotry.

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      4 months ago

      They just feel it’s now safer to express their bigotry.

      Which has a memetic effect on the population. The more bigotry ideas are expressed, the more new people feel that those ideas have value. Andrew Tate is an example of a super spreader.