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I disagree with this. You are mentioning extreme events that were more common in the past but my concern is that the extreme views today are more pervasive and

• dragonwriter 4y ago
  > . You are mentioning extreme events that were more common in the past but my concern is that the extreme views today are more pervasive and widespread thanks to the internet Extreme views are not more pervasive than ever (they might be up from a minimum in like the late 1980s/early 1990s, but not to some unprecedented level.) The internet makes views divergent from those of your immediate race/class/industry/goegraphy-defined subgroup more visible, and for many of the same reasons it makes cultural subgroups less defined by those categories than in the past. > If politically morivated bombings become trendy again it might mean mangnitudes worse than the 70s The reason they were more common in the 1970s is greater extremism, not fashion. Yes, if extremism actually got worse than the 1970s, then... it would be worse than the 1970s.