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A comment on Twilight of the Racist Uncles.

Re:Twilight of the Racist Uncles by throwaway5250 on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @02:25PM (#18611577)
tldr: The half of the country that voted for the current President are all awful, stupid people, and they spend their time reading awful, stupid websites.
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Re:Twilight of the Racist Uncles by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @02:38PM (#18611694)
And the social network business model leads them to validate and reinforce each others' worst tendencies.
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Re:Twilight of the Racist Uncles by throwaway5250 on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:31PM (#18612208)
My point was that this looks quite the same from the other side of the aisle.

More damningly, that article has nothing useful to add beyond ad hominems. Instead, try this: https://heterodoxacademy.org/social-science-hidden-tribes/

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