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During the Korean War, captured American soldiers found themselves in POW camps run by Chinese Communists. The Chinese treated captives quite differently than their allies, the North Koreans, who favored savagery and harsh punishment to gain compliance
Interesting story, but it scans equally well if you replace "social justice" with "far right radicalisation". The communists had an agenda, but social media doesn't. Adjusting our beliefs to fit those around us is something all humans do; the communists weaponised it.
So why single out "wokeness" and imply that it's the ideology of social media, just like communism was for the Chinese state?
Have you seen right wing Twitter? And r/thedonald? And read anything about Facebook's role in radicalisation?
Yeah, this dynamic works just as well for the right as the left. But let's not kid ourselves, the audience for this thread is much more likely to be in a left-wing social media incentive landscape than a right-wing one.
Yup, that's my theory for why @0x49fa98 picked that particular ideology and implied it was the only one social media was spreading.
the problem with this is, the right has barely moved in its positions in the past 20 years, whereas the left has moved substantially. This is well-documented. No far-right radicalization has occurred. My views on, for example, gay marriage have not changed in 30 years.
What you call "radicalization" I call "refusing to let the overton window drag me"
Arrest comes before trial.
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