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The bigger story here is the comment section. Why are Americans so enamored with conspiracy theories and hate?
by disease 6y ago
The bigger story here is the comment section. Why are Americans so enamored with conspiracy theories and hate?
- dawnerd 6y agoIt’s not just America... You have anti-5G/anti vaccine nuts in Canada and Europe too. We just seem to be louder.
- economicslol 6y agoIs it really on the same scale though? It's quite hard getting a sense of what's normal from Social Media sites since they are so US-centric. It certainly seems like a large portion of the population here misunderstand basic science, statistics, biology, economics, etc. Having been educated in the US public school system it's not that surprising that people are so poorly informed.
- dawnerd 6y agoI'm not sure, like you said it's kind of hard to tell with the US bias social media and the media in general. From recently memory though, I don't think there was cases of this in the States https://apnews.com/4ac3679b6f39e8bd2561c1c8eeafd855 https://apnews.com/4ac3679b6f39e8bd2561c1c8eeafd855 (But we're definitely more radical in other areas like protesters with guns).