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Polarization has been happening everywhere not just HN and not just in the US. Othering is a related term. See also: https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/partisansh
by brianpan 7y ago
Polarization has been happening everywhere not just HN and not just in the US. Othering is a related term.
See also: https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/partisanship/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/partisanship/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/ideology/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/ideology/
- darkkindness 7y agoI like this. Polarization is a pretty good characterization. People are just not treating neutral views as neutral anymore. Food for thought: perhaps people treating everything as fake news is an unfortunate adverse effect of all the messaging about the dangers of not recognizing fake news.