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I agree that the issue is not quite as simple as "just let everyone do their own thing". I also don't know how I would ease my kids onto the Internet - I feel l
by arugulum 7y ago
I agree that the issue is not quite as simple as "just let everyone do their own thing". I also don't know how I would ease my kids onto the Internet - I feel like it was a less dangerous place when I was growing up. My very subjective and still liable to change opinion is that it will come down to education, developing maturity Internet consumption over time, and the broad swathes of the Internet calling trash out when that's what it is. And of course banning the truly extreme sick filth.
(I have a whole separate argument on how I think the problem may be that the progressive movement has simply assumed that it has won the cultural war, and has stopped making effective arguments for itself, which inadvertently leaves room for alt-right type movements that are still actively recruiting and promoting themselves - e.g. the so-called "red pilling".)
- antepodius 7y agoWell, the alt-right's a broad, unconcentrated counterculture. It's easy to see hypocrisy and dishonesty amongst the mainstream political culture, so there's an allure to aligning against it, secretly or not. I imagine if the mainstream political culture in e.g. america had been headed rightward for the last however long, we'd see a bigger alt-left... but who knows.