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And for a moment there was silence (europe.pub)
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[–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah... these people do exist, and there are WAY WAY more of them than we ever realized.

The old conventional knowledge - that people become more liberal and open minded over time and the bigots are a loud minority? Yeah... that turned out to be completely wrong. Whatever else you believe, continuing the nonsense pretense that these shitheads don't actually exist is wishful thinking.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    The old conventional knowledge - that people become more liberal and open minded over time

    Huh? It's always been considered the opposite.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I don't mean at an individual level - I meant at a societal level. The idea has always been that younger generations become increasingly open minded and liberal as time goes on and that we'd reached a tipping point where tribal, bigoted views could never be the majority again.

    That was a HUGE mistake of complacency, and quite possibly a fatal one for multicultural democracy.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Ah, I misunderstood. Yeah, there was an assumption that Z and Alpha would be more and more progressive, but not enough people paid enough attention to the capture of large parts of those groups by conservatives.

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