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Everything Magnified: Why were the protests and riots of 2020 so explosive?
- Proven 6y agoBecause one of two major parties as well as State and local governments influenced by it help organize it, encourages it and fails to condemn even the most violent and outrageous examples of these generally lawless and violent demonstrations. Only tiny minority of these violent looters and criminals gets caught and prosecuted. Ther are some secondary factors at play too, but you don't need a PhD to know the main reason.
- foolzcrow 6y agoCNN, MSNBC, Twitter, google, and Facebook used Pavlovian style conditioning to radicalize their followers to see all oppositional ideas as facist. Then labeled the supporters Nazis. Then instead of denouncing violence the aforementioned called it peaceful and blocked and still have blocked, all dissent. Repeat narritive over and over orange man bad, America must be destroyed. That content is not only allowed but boosted and monitized.