I'm increasingly of the opinion that old people who become more hateful and bigoted from watching Fox News were always that way. They just hid it much better. Prolonged exposure to right wing media just made them feel comfortable more openly expressing their bigotry and racism.1/
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I'll qualify that by adding that it's almost certainly true that exposure to right wing media over time takes that preexisting racism and bigotry and supercharges it by providing fuel and an echo chamber. 2/
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People who aren't already bigoted and racist, however, are highly unlikely to become so because of prolonged exposure to right wing media. There has to be fertile soil for the seeds planted by Hannity, etc., to grow. 3/3
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Replying to @gorskon
I’d argue that they self select to consume RW media. If you’re not tending way right why would you pay any attention to Fox/Limbaugh?
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Replying to @HendricksGlenn
There is also that, yes.
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