(January 25, 2017 at 2:55 am)SteelCurtain Wrote:(January 25, 2017 at 2:34 am)Regina Wrote: I agree with you wholeheartedly, I just think it is something liberal-minded people do have to call out, so as not to allow darker forces on the right-wing to jump on it and make themselves look more sophisticated and attractive.
I just don't. Mostly because I don't think it will matter one bit. There is a social movement happening, and as with every social movement in history, the pendulum swings too far. It will naturally settle with some people planting themselves on the fringe and staying there, but the majority will find their way to normalcy.
The right is having their social movement too. Nationalism is on the rise, and supremacists are having their day in the sun again. They are reacting to the PC police by outbursts of overt racism (allegedly seen here.) But none of these things define conservatives, either.
The point is that the stories that you are going to see are always the outliers. The vast majority of millennials are normal people just like you and me. It's just that social media so easily foists these exceptional cases in front of us, triggering our outrage. It's all bullshit.
Well said we focus to much on extremes especially and unfairly on youth (a trend throughout history)
And think your right extremists will attract extremists. While most people will go centrist to some degree. Extremes are rarely sustainable as the alt right already showing.
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