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> all of these things were substantially worse before technology got involved I'm not really sure that they were. Between the late 60s and the early 2000s they

• tremon 5y ago
  If that were true, then the rise of overt racism/sexism coincides with the rise of identity politics? If so, do we know which is driving the other? I have always operated under the assumption that the amount of (latent) allophobia in a given population is pretty much constant (or rather, a sawtooth wave around a hardly-changing trendline). The reason that we don't have violent clashes every week is because society is big enough that the oppositional groups don't come into direct contact that often. It seems that social media facilitates that direct contact (and algorithms actually drive it, because engagement), so we see more of the ugliness. But I'm not convinced that more overt allophobia automatically implies that there's more allophobia in total, just that it's more readily expressed. But I realize that this is all conjecture, because there is no way to accurately measure latent allophobia anyway. It's just my personal interpretation of complex societies.