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For only the last 5 years?! We started approaching our current level of polarization and infighting over wedge issues during the 90's, and have steadily gotten
by Enginerrrd 7y ago
For only the last 5 years?! We started approaching our current level of polarization and infighting over wedge issues during the 90's, and have steadily gotten worse. Both sides are hopelessly deadlocked and so convinced they're right as to completely disparage and dehumanize half of the population. They're more interested in fighting the other side than they are moving forward in any way if it involves giving the other side a victory, no matter how small. If that's not the stupidity that got us into this mess, I don't know what is.
- throwaway894345 7y agoBy my estimation, most elite media, academia, and other epistemological institutions retained a strong sense of professional integrity prior to ~2012. They certainly had their biases, but they took some care to veil them. This change felt pretty distinct and abrupt to me; before the sort of overt partisanship was widespread among the general population, but these elite institutions were generally seen as above the fray. Afterward, we saw a steep trend toward tabloidism that climaxed early last year with the Covington Catholic affair (for the unfamiliar, the media doctored a video of some students to make them appear to be frothing racists to the effect that they were mobbed online and received threats of death and violence even from celebrities) but which has remained in a lesser but still heightened state ever since.