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I know it already is but should it be?

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

I think it is mostly because people feel more free to express those thoughts because the president of the US share those thoughts.

But they thought like that to begin with, that's why they voted for him.

I think it's an uncomfortable truth, but people genuinely think like that not because they have been brainwashed or because propaganda. The same our political thoughts are based their political thoughts are based too.

I think it's important not underestimate the opponent, because then we won't really understand why it rose to power. I think it's a mistake thinking that baning hate speech will prevent something like Trump getting elected. I live in Europe where hate speech is mostly banned. Still the turn to the far right is growing even faster and more right than the US. People don't say nasty things in public, political representatives don't say those things in public. Because there's laws against that. But people think nasty things and say them in private all the time. Because they have developed a political thinking around that. And it's not that simple as "they became radical because a political representative said a bad thing on twitter" they developed those political thoughts the same we all developed our political thoughts.