>The question is if the ability of the hateful to find communities of like-unminded people allows them to persist, organize, and affect the lives of the objects

>The question is if the ability of the hateful to find communities of like-unminded people allows them to persist, organize, and affect the lives of the objects of their hatred in ways that were less likely than before I suspect this is a serious factor. In the before-times, the ability of these people to meaningfully organize was hampered by their comparative rarity and geographical distribution. The consequences of those two factors created a damping effect: the majority of their social interactions were with non-extremists, giving them neither a chance to express extremism nor mutually reinforce their extreme beliefs.