All of this to say, THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENS. It’s not that there are a bunch of anti-semites, homophobes, & racists - there are - but that otherwise tolerant & open minded people are being fed a constant diet of lies by their media. This is why they hold the beliefs they hold. - ThreadSky

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fuegodiego.bsky.social • 5 days ago

All of this to say, THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENS. It’s not that there are a bunch of anti-semites, homophobes, & racists - there are - but that otherwise tolerant & open minded people are being fed a constant diet of lies by their media. This is why they hold the beliefs they hold.

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fuegodiego.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is not to dismiss the horrors. This is not to justify the support for truly disgusting, completely anti-democratic & often anti-human policies. But the source is the media. The source is social media. They have an entire generation & more under their spell.

fuegodiego.bsky.social•5 days ago

To dismantle the right wing in America right now, is to dismantle the lies told by NewsMax, Fox News, & their ilk.

fuegodiego.bsky.social•5 days ago

Americans somewhat rightly bristle at the idea of silencing media, making hate speech punishable, but we need to see our way through it. It’s the only way forward for our country. It’s the only way we make our country safe. It’s how we avoid the war we are on course to have, be it civil or world.

fuegodiego.bsky.social•5 days ago

And once we dismantle the enormous disinformation industry, we need to find a way to welcome otherwise loving, hospitable, moderate, but highly humiliated, folks like this man back into society. Because there is nothing as powerful as humiliation to make someone double triple & quadruple down.

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