Whilst I understand humans have probably hated other humans since the dawn of time it seems as though within the last few years it has become a lot more noticeable.
It could just be that it’s becoming less avoidable due to the rise of things like social media and therefore more noticeable but it seems like everywhere you look people are becoming increasingly and unnecessarily mean.
Even just observing people in public settings it seems like people are less tolerable of those around them.
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Populist leaders act like bigots in turn inspire followers to do the same
intolerance was easier to hide when there weren’t giant headlines on all social media about wars across the globe. that stuff comes with an insane amount of crazy opinions and rage bait that drags out a person’s true colors. just my guess
Social media and the media itself has turned life into cultish behavior.. if you divide people and make them hate each other , they are much easier to manipulate and conquer..
People just wanna live their lives without having to step on egg shells for people they aint even dealing with
It’s not, we’re just seeing it more in the open. This amount of hate has always existed in the background, they were just too scared to be public with it.
The internet, ease of access to propaganda, youtube, social media, and podcasters.
Until someone does something about the internet it will only get worse. All this started after Smart Phones got everyone internet access and social media allowed ease of transfer of information.
Podcasts and internet accounts have ZERO transparency and total anonymity. You don’t know whose funding people like Tim Pool unless there is a leak. Then it’s revealed it’s Russian foreign agents.
Then you have groups like Stormfront who can pretend to be libertarians under fake accounts and spread far-right propaganda gaslighting people.
This is all a cause of how the internet has been constructed and what’s funny is the far-left reddit users even defend it. People have basically been brainwashed into this shit and if not that brainwashed to defend the method. A lot of language surrounding things like “privacy” for example. Like “privacy” of your anonymous account is worth all this. And I suspect the biggest pushers of that are also people who are using it to do this shit.
edit: Just want to add one more thing. You will see occasionally far-right youtubers whining about DOXXING all the time. Usually because some neo-nazi got doxxed, and it turns out if you are a neo-nazi there are repercussions like they lose their job. It’s not like a “town square” as they say, in a town square you are known.
I don’t think it’s on the rise at all. I think it’s about where it has been for the past couple decades. Maybe even a bit better now.
Its because it is easier to telegraph these vile beliefs with the media of today. 100 years ago most people seldom saw someone from out of their in group whether it be a religion or race or nationality. They aren’t necessarily less tolerant just more aware and susceptible to myths and innuendo about others for those same reasons.
Because the people in power always use minority groups as a scapegoat for their problems in society.
I can’t prove it but i think it has todo with the huge push for political correctness over the last few years.
I truly believe that everything has an equal and opposite reaction, so the harder you push for people to become more tolerant they become less tolerant out of spite.
Our media and politicians lie to our faces or just tell partial trues to support their stance. They know the majority of the public won’t go any further than social media or the news to understand the facts. They are playing us like puppets.
IMHO, the majority of it is caused by manipulation by those that consider themselves the elites. People are being used to accomplish goals that do not benefit them in any way, but do benefit those that have power.
Because MAGA made being an asshole acceptable
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I find that hate is the default for idiots. They don’t understand something, so their brain goes “I don’t understand, so it must be bad!” For example, I guarantee that most of the homophobic shitheads in America have never met a gay or trans person in their life. Then propaganda can call people just trying to live authentically “monsters” and idiots who have never met a person like that can fall into their default, hate. The internet, ironically given that it’s supposed to be a source of information, has spread that idiocy like wildfire.
You used to be able to assume people held the same values and opinions as you, whether that was true or not. Not only can you not assume that anymore, social media makes it easier to believe that everyone in fact holds beliefs antithetical to your own.
Half of America started killing the other half of America like 160 years ago because we were so intolerant of one another.
Personally, I think this is an improvement.
We never should’ve left the kids to play on XboxLive. It was so much easier than parenting and allowed us our vices.
I suspect it’s because the internet has largely replaced person to person contact. That’ll warp anyone’s social maturity. And people will still have the same overall desire to belong somewhere, but instead of a high five it’s an upvote. At least that’s the best i can toss out with dyslexic autocorrect with 5 mins of break time left.
We have a portal to all of the controversy in the world, right in our pocket. We just notice the same ol more.
It’s been given permission to go public by the current maga regime. People no longer feel they have to hide it. Rather they can fearlessly and boldly be upfront about who they, and generations before them have always been. Always.
it’s not clear to me that it is
I’d be interested in what r/sociology would say. I remember reading that during the run-up to world war one there was a noticeable uptick in nationalism and war-mongering, like a slow rolling mass hysteria that caught on like a virus. The general feeling I get lately is that people are drowning in conflicting information, choosing their sides and then reverting to tribalism – find your clan, protect your identity and attack anyone who isn’t in the ‘in-group’.
Back in the 1980s, 1990s,2000s people got along & so on. I totally agree with you. Now days people get away with stealing & being mean to others without consequences & people being negative about just everything.
I think this has to do with a lot of the rhetoric we hear on both sides, particularly in the political spectrum and it has become the mantra that either you you agree with me or you’re wrong and I think that has spread to various parts of daily life and the mentality has shifted that we can’t respect differences as much as we used to
Cuz exstreme people.make tolerance toxic
Part of it is that major communications revolutions tend to upend society. Reckless people get a hold of these new formats and use them to influence people. For better and worse, that influence tends towards upsetting existing social orders.
We saw it with the printing press. We saw it with TV and radio. We’re seeing it now with the Internet.
Yeah it just seems like humans are losing the altruistic traits that make us what we are.
I’ve noticed that it’s primarily the terminally online people who have always been massive bigots and tribalistic savages.
People in real life are much more welcoming and friendly, at least in my experience.
A. It’s always been the same, you just have access to more of it.
B. The media stopped reporting the news and started telling you the news.
C. People are sick and tired of walking on egg shells for fear of “offending” people who have been taught to be offended by everything or to pretend to be offended by what they are told to be offended by.
It went too far and now is dying like the hippie movement and soon we will be back to normal hate.
gotten weak and thin skinned the made up outrage
Before social media, oftentimes the majority of people within a given area would follow the same beliefs and practices of what should be done. People who disagreed stayed silent.
With social media, you can easily find out that tons of other people share your opinions. You’re able to be vocal about what you think.
Have you ever had it where after reading a book your writing style begins looking a bit more similarly to the author’s? That’s what’s happening here. Prolonged exposure to processing something differently will cause you to continue processing it that way outside of the situation.
Because of that, people are willing to be more vocal in real life about what they think and believe should be done versus other people’s opinions. And thus, conflict arises. Others join going, “Me too!” Others feel divided while everyone else has made it one side vs the other. Some stoutly believe in their opinion. Others just want things to be calm again and so they join the original opinion because things were peaceful before the other opinion came up.
Another thing to consider is attribution errors. This is where you attribute a person’s behavior to either external factors (“It’s not really their fault. They’re just doing the best with the hand they were dealt.”) or to internal behaviors (“The only reason So-and-so wants this is because it benefits them. They’ve always been so selfish.”) when in reality you can’t really determine why a person wants something done a certain way.
Are you also here from many who are in education less and less are utilizing critical, thinking rather just accepting for what is being said, and for whatever reason that is it easily reads the disconnected intolerance because it doesn’t allow people to think for themselves or want to think for themselves
It isn’t. Tolerance is likely as high as it’s ever been in the history of the world. You’re clearly just down a rabbit hole and recieving confirmation bias from your algorithm.
We are all increasingly being socially isolated while simultaneously being bombarded with social media and news that stokes fear, paranoia, and disgust at others people behaviors. This is not normal or indicative of a “healthy” society. We are very unwell, falling into algorithmic echo chambers, and so many are grasping for the easiest solution because thinking or reasoning out something better takes too much time and energy from people working 40+ hrs to barely sustain themselves.
To be fair, tolerance is still a pretty new idea. For example, I’ve never seen/heard of so many trans people existing than I have in the past five-ish years or so. For somebody who is unfamiliar with the idea or has previously thought trans people were weird/different/etc., I’d imagine they find it a lot harder to learn how to tolerate them in just a few years. Plus, everything is radicalized now– things are becoming more black and white with less and less nuance being the norm, so it’s kind of the “you’re either with us or against us” mentality when it comes to learning about different groups of people. You’re either the “normal” or the “weird” one. It’s easier for people to stick with what they’ve probably been used to their whole lives, so they just stick with like-minded people and choose to not tolerate.
Because Tribalism is fun and it feels good to be on a team. And someone came along and told people that this fun thing is actually a good thing – in fact, might as well blame all your troubles on the other team, it certainly feels better than blaming yourself, or the universe.
The Internet and echo chambers certainly don’t hurt. Specifically algorithmic supported extremist pipelines.
On the rise?? Right now is BY FAR the most tolerant time in human history
We can mend our differences over an Arby’s Beef and Cheddar 😇🍽️🫶
Most of America lives in a news desert. What they see is crafted to make them hate and fear anyone not like them.
Then, they watch TV all night, seeing endless shows about black men murdering people, and heroic police officers solving the crimes and respectable judges administering justice. None of this reflects reality, but it’s the America they believe they live in.
because ppl are so fucking stupid and useless and a giant waste of space and time
“everywhere you look”. I almost never see this in my real life.
If you mean online, then yes I see this all the time.
It’s not on the rise. It’s always been there.
Trump has simply legitimized it being said out loud.
Some people weaponized the expectation that you would be tolerant to them and other people responded by giving up on tolerance.
Social media showed people’s true colours in my opinion. It allows some of the more non savoury people of society to speak with no consequence.
Also, I find the less educated, the more likely to start slinging insults & other online type of BS you can think of, when they’re wrong.
I was once told not to breed because the dude didn’t think I was right about a very simple thing 🤣 Even though I showed proof. Whereas one of the smartest people I knew(RIP Bro), would listen carefully if told him he didn’t understand something, so he could take in the explanation & learn. It’s why I loved being around him just talking about each others hobbies. We learned off each other. Honestly, he was literally one of the smartest kids in the state & most likely country, so saying he’s one of the smartest people I knew, was a massive understatement.
So, now that I’ve finished the small tangent, basically, people are getting dumber, more entitled & louder. Narcissistic behaviour seems to really love being displayed on social media, & people seem to love it too.
Add stress to the mix with the cost of living BS going on.
I don’t think intolerance is on the rise, but I do think acceptance is on a down slope. Not that long ago you could be the polar opposite of someone politically and still be very close friends.
But now if you have one singular view that’s slightly different than whatever group is around you, you are cast out as a pariah.
Slightly different view on the boarder or free healthcare and all groups just pigeon hole you.
It’s easier than ever to find an echo chamber of people who will tell you that you are right and they are wrong. You’re also fed a constant diet of content that reinforces that you’re right.
Because shit is bad. The economy is bad. The environment is bad. Infrastructure is bad. Social media is bad. Food is bad. Recreation is bad. Literally everything is bad. And the people who are 100% responsible for it (billionaires and corporations and politicians) don’t want it to change. So they created the illusion that it’s the “other guy” causing all your problems.
Social media such as TikTok and reels. That and people are just tired.
People with horrible opinions used to keep their opinions to themselves or at least only speak about it quietly among a group of close friends because since the majority of society would shame them for it, it didn’t make sense to broadcast it.
But with social media and the algorithms that match up content. You can say horribly outrageous things and social media sites will comb the entire site to find the people who share your view and encourage them to speak up in support of you. Now you think you are justified because you have a supportive audience, so you say even worse things.
it’s honestly exhausting like why are ppl so mean for no reason
Some of us are simply tired of pretending to be tolerant. Constantly hiding your views gets incredibly tiring and frustrating after a while.
Political propaganda coupled with people not realizing that we’re mostly all in the same boat 🛥️
Rise of nationalism babyyyy increases a sense of us versus them and everyone has a different idea of who “us” includes
If you look at history, for example before World Wars you would have some sort of financial crisis which in turn would turn people more nationalistic/ leaning right. So it’s not new, history is repeating, plus now we also had the pandemic so that causes even more fear and in turn leaning to extremism. Unfortunately is the same as before other WW
It’s not on the rise, it’s the same as it’s always been.
I worked in customer service since I was 14/15 years old. Now I’m 50 and it’s the same old crap.
There are just as many kind people in the world as unkind. Maybe even more so.
Though, stress and fear can cause kind people to act in intolerant ways.
The Internet, social media and such is not to blame for intolerance, it just reveals intolerance. A truly kind and caring person doesn’t suddenly turn mean and hateful or become a bully because they engage in social media. If you see this happen they fooled you, hid their true selves.
If your seeing a rise of people being intolerant of bad behavior. Join the movement.
How we behave and what we accept is learned behavior. Beliefs are being breathed into children from the moment they take their first breath. So if an intolerant person has five children, there is a good chance they raise 5 more intolerant people. Let’s hope more people start breaking these cycles than carry them forward.
It has very little to do with social media, public speaking, television and news – those plat forms are just echoing what already exists. The people that become zealous already believe these things to a degree, they just feel safe enough to voice them when someone else does.
It’s social media. We weren’t supposed to know this many people even existed, let alone all their thoughts.
lack of empathy
because stupid people breed quicker
Intolerance of others is at the same level, people just kept it mostly to themselves so it seemed less that it was in reality. Now people are less afraid to voice their opinions.
I also see the same things and I believe the rise of social media has given people a platform to voice their opinions, and unfortunately, given people a false sense of superiority. Everyone thinks their opinions are of value, and they are, if presented respectfully. But, with social media people have become comfortable being disrespectful without consequence. Respectful discussion is not a priority. People don’t approach topics in good faith to actually have a discussion, they approach with a predisposed mindset with zero intention on attacking any opinion or belief that’s different. It’s about who can be the loudest or which opinion can become an echo chamber to reinforce their feelings.
I used to enjoy discussions about sensitive issues, but time and time again they devolve into a miserable conversation filled with hate.
Maybe one day we will get past this as a society, but it doesn’t look as though we will.
People are shit.
Cut public education funds; lowers quality of education education to the masses; lowering the ability to critically think and resource ; increase of propaganda and mass manipulation ; elect officials who create division instead on inclusion; based on hate ; mass manipulation easier to control when tribes are fighting one another instead of uniting .
I wouldn’t say it’s on the rise per se. Humans have always been extremely intolerant of other humans, especially those outside of their community/ethnicity/culture/religion. It’s just being talked about more, and on a global scale. Information has never passed so quickly around the globe, and so we get to see it all in real time. Social media has definitely made it more noticeable, but I truly don’t believe there has been a rise in intolerance, it’s just more visible now.
The West has been practicing suicidal tolerance for a while now and it’s destroying these once peaceful and functioning societies.
Because we preached tolerance so long people began to become tolerant of intolerance. It paradoxical, but tolerance of intolerance only leads to more intolerance, not less.
Because tolerance has been abused and is being used as a way to indoctrinate people into accepting and normalizing dangerous and downright stupid practices.
People are social creatures and very suseptible to influence. We have a right to exclude from our society practice that we deem unacceptable.
There is a fine line between legitimate exclusion and bigotry, and there’s a fine line between tolerance and naive indifference. I see more and more instances of the latter than the former, yet people are still focused on the one way oppression can manifest.
There are a lot of problems in the world and people want it to be someones fault, but never their own fault or something they are related to
Because it is politically and financially beneficial for wealthy people, who have enough money to pay for data and create targeted ad campaigns, to create false divisions and then offer the “solutions” to those divisions in lieu of making improvements. The reason for this is that actual improvements would render money less powerful and they are unwilling to forfeit power.
Polarizing content is being fabricated and promoted specifically for the purpose of turning people against one another so that we do not instead advocate for better human rights protections, more reliable services, and affordable housing.
I do not blame individual civilians who fall prey to targeted and manipulative ad campaigns. The people creating those campaigns have billions of dollars to spend on understanding exactly how to manipulate us, and not all of us have the resources to become aware of the manipulation before it hurts us. It is easier to call yourself a free thinker and view other people, violent people, as animals. But it’s really important to remember that we are all human, and any of us can be made this way if we are not conscious of the information that we consume.
Algorithms show you things like, which leads you to think everyone think like you do, which leads to becoming less tolerant
Material conditions are getting worse for more people and grifters point to scapegoats for the people to take out their anger on, instead of the people who actually causing the worsening material conditions i.e. the grifters and wealthy individuals they serve.
People have a predisposition for tribal behavior due to our evolution, so the scapegoating of vulnerable individuals actually psychologically bypasses our logic, making it hard for them to see the obvious.
It’s a bit of a positive feedback loop, especially as things get worse.
I know it’s only anecdotal, but I don’t personally know a single person who has something negative happen to their life because of immigrants, illegal or otherwise. Most people I know have been directly negative affected unaffordable housing and healthcare, ceo’s taking huge bonuses to ship their jobs to east Asia, and health problems due pollution and chemicals in the air and in our water. I personally developed asthma in my 20’s after not having any symptoms while being a child. And having grown up in Michigan in the 90s, I know what losing important jobs does to a community. These psychological quirks that prevent us from thinking logically are best combatted with education, but certain peoples have made it a priority to gut our education system.
Our problems are now so tangled up, it is hard to imagine how they can be fixed.
Tldr: bad material conditions leading to people looking for scapegoats.
Hm, I wonder if it has anything to do with the human rights violations during lockdowns.
Speaking only about my own country America, I believe sometime about a decade ago go we completed a long, slow cultural shift away from a more traditional, heterogenous religious based culture to a more multi-cultural, secular bard culture. Colloquially we describe this as the Right and Left.
Since most often in the past this was accomplished through war and revolution it left one side completely marginalized in the new order. In America today both of those sides are still battling it out, largely peaceful and democratically, in the public sphere. The Left has cultural supremacy and the Right currently has political supremacy. Neither side wants to live with the other because they feel the other is fundamentally opposed to their way of life which is true.
Social media, where people broadcast every action and thought they have, has become the currency of the land so we are simply flooded with the idea that in order to have a proper society one of these views must win out over the other.
It’s very simple, that’s due to forced diversity.
You have tribe A & B. They are different, and live apart. Everything is peaceful.
Now, force them to live together, as one tribe. Keep adding new tribes to the mix without paying attention to the compatibility between tribes. All you’ll get is more and more conflict between tribes, until eventually you get a single tribe again. Or until the empire collapses, as the Romans did.
You fix this by keeping incompatible tribes separated from each other, which is basically a sacrilegious concept in the west.
People experiencing “fight or flight” rarely are able to regulate themselves enough to extend tolerance for others because they are not able to extend it to themselves first; and the current state of the world with the constant fear mongering and insecurity based advertising is designed to keep people in a constant state of “fight or flight “.
Tit for tat. Intolerance for my ilk? Fine, intolerance for yours too. And on and on we go.
More public displays by those in power where there’s a lack of courtesy, respect and dignity normalizes it for those who believe that’s how they should be allowed to act.
When you get a leader (of any capacity) who lives a life of intolerance and judgements of others, it makes it much easier for people (who once were in the closet with these issues) to join the bandwagon and follow the leader.
I have lost my tolerance for others intolerance!
These nasty intolerant views are sculpting the world that I live in. Eventually the line has to be drawn in the sand.
We have leadership that promotes intolerance and division, so it’s inevitable.
Main Character Syndrome.
I would not assume intolerance is on the rise.
Just like people think the world is more violent or that people’s lives are worse now in other ways, it is usually more perception than reality.
Because they are being brainwashed into thinking the other person is out to get them.
Because Trump gave MAGA the ok to be racist.
The world is getting poorer in a financial sense as well as health sense and mental health sense too
It’s not on the rise.
Expressing intolerance toward others (instead of hiding it or being covert and making excuses for it) is on the rise. This is because The Orange Rapist has given the ideas to bigots everywhere that they are in charge now and they will always be in charge so they can now openly express the bigotry they were previously hiding and they will never face any consequences for it.
Because we were never as tolerant as we wanted to believe. Honestly not sure what’s worse, hiding intolerance or giving voice to it. Do I want to shop at a store thinking they are tolerant or letting them speak their mind so I know not to shop there.
And at the end of the day someone doesn’t like someone just because. It’s a human trait and probably ain’t going away. Suppressing it certainly didn’t seem to work.
Big business owners need the workers and small business owners to compete with themselves stuck in the rat race that made the billionaires billions. Basically they use divide and rule to convince us we are being screwed over by each other rather than the ones on top who built the system one generation at time to provide extravagant lifestyles for themselves with your labor.
Tolerance used to mean “I totally disagree with your views but I totally respect your right to hold them” Now it is “If you disagree with me you are intolerant and must be forced to agree with me.”
It’s not, it’s actually less prevalent now than in the past. It’s just that, with modern media, we see every little blemish under a magnifying glass as soon as it pops up anywhere.
Thirty years ago you only saw the people in your neighborhood or at the store or on tv. No smart phones, no social media. Now you see everyone and more importantly you see the people dying to be seen. It’s a nightmare.
I think it’s important to distinguish tolerance from acceptance. I can tolerate a crack head, an influencer, or a politician, but that does not mean I accept their lifestyle. We seem to be losing that distinction lately.
We’re all poor and we can’t get to the people whose fault it really is.
Dont underestimate the work of propagandists who wish to create cracks and divisions in society to further their own ends
Social media has normalized fringe opinions.
Thank the media. The media wants you to be scared and divided, its gives them more to report on.
Amplification from internet/social media
Is it on the rise or do we have more social media platforms to blast it out into the world? These ideas are far from new. They’ve always existed, and there has always been people on the outside that recieve the hate. Who those people are changes, based on your social, political, and regional views. But it’s not a new thing. Just a new ‘other’
Because hate has been monetized and is the de-facto way to get free updoots nowadays. Everyone wants to shit on everything and everyone else, because rage bait is king on the internet
By design. It’s pushed and encouraged on the TV and media. If you’re busy arguing amongst each other over skin color and religion and politics. You’ll be too busy fighting amongst each other to see who’s really the problem.
This often happens when people aren’t getting their basic needs met due to a perceived sense of scarcity. They see it as a zero-sum game where some group is taking from them
“Why not the billionaires then?”, most people are so far abstracted from billionaires that they can’t make that connection, really. If you lose out on a job to someone else who undercut you on pay, you don’t blame the system which created a race to the bottom and the billionaires who benefit from that system, you blame the guy who got the job
Social media is birthing so much intollerance, hate and impossible life standards values, which is self sustaining and growing by the day it’s genuienly insane, the uk is already talking about putting laws in place so young kids can’t have access to social media, this i think is a step in the right direction
It isn’t it’s just more widely seen because of social media
Average people who love Trump and average people who hate Trump have more in common with each other than the ruling class left or right, who are at best like Bruce from Finding Nemo.
Because there seems to be an increase of such stupid people out there without any sense of awareness or common sense, so I think people have just ran out of patience🤷🏻♀️
is it, give some examples
Scarcity of resources. Peeps struggling n looking for blame. When the cousins were bickering, we were like- there’s plenty of food yall don’t gotta tryna kills each other.
We won’t need to concern ourselves with it for much longer, as I see it. We’re in an extraordinarily urgent race to build machines that will one day push us aside or worse, make us extinct. Don’t believe me? Think about this: there was a time that things like automobiles and elevators were simply too far-fetched to ever accept as being possible. Nuclear explosions and crossing the Pacific in 8 hours IN THE AIR? Psssh. Cmon. And honestly, the mere suggestion that a person could ever instantaneously message someone who’s currently on a different continent is just laughable.
And look at us now.
We’re training computers to write our books, cook our meals, pick our stocks, paint our houses, pull our teeth, change our flat tires, construct our buildings, pave our roads, ring up our groceries, rake our leaves and wipe our asses.
Don’t kid yourself. We prob won’t see it come full circle in our lifetime, but it will happen, and A LOT sooner than you think.
It isn’t a lot of old white people basically didn’t even interact with non white people till they were out of highschool
My two cents is forcing opinions as fact.
Trans people certainly have beliefs but they aren’t facts. Calling them facts insults and polarizes.
Some people don’t believe in homosexuality and until they have gay kids to learn their lesson there isn’t much you can do to enlighten them.
Anyway, let them. Who cares if everyone doesn’t undersign your lifestyle. IMO the left wants everyone to agree with them and it creates weakness in discourse. Republicans are lame sure whatever but this is the left’s own fault.
Tolerance and acceptance is played
People get tired of pretending. Because that’s what everyone does. Pre-judgeing and not tolerating stuff we don’t like are fundamental aspects of our genes. We literally have to train intolerance out of us.
That’s probably it: social media makes everything visible.
We are going nuclear. Split/split/split/split…..
I feel like many humans nowadays are like dogs between gates barking hard until it opens. Spoiled by the comforts of modern life ready to play warriors for their beliefs. Meanwhile back in the days people actually survived wars on such a massive scale that they touched multiple countries were called world wars and that may have united many that didn’t want all that violence in the first place, probably they were so glad all that violence was finally over that everything else seemed much sillier in comparison.
35% of America decided they liked the words coming out of an ignorant fascist’s mouth. Look no further than that.
Lots of changes with implications and reality adapting.
Matthew 24:12
How is it on the rise?
Because the Nazis are able to get away with it now that they’ve created more Nazis.
Theres a lot of tension building up within people.
The current regime (and Trump’s previous regime) have emboldened people to be more public with their intolerance and hate.
Too much attention on the rich and powerful, they then spin it to make us hate and despise each other to take each other out and leave them alone.
Also: racism is now on the docket/is cool again and people are coming out of the woodwork to show their true colors.
So basically, money and race rules all.
And it sucks.
Not on a conspiratorial way, but as a natural consequence of shock value/conflict-priented media. It’s propaganda that keeps up clicks, views, add revenue. In an exponentially changing world of technology, it’s a lot simpler for someone to point a finger and say ‘this new thing you do not understand causes all the problems!’
Tale as old as time, like you said. It’s just easier and more apparent now with how confused middle-aged people are about news sources, altered stories/images, ai, you name it. Nothing feels like it is ‘the truth’, objectively. So people just go to the simplest answer that feels like it fits their moral worldview.
Point at changing demographics, new identities, things that are different than when things were ‘good’. Correlate those changes with the economy, crime, fear, etc.
Not sure that I agree on your premise. But if so because people are more self conceited.
Because Trump. Not kidding. He is an ass and everyone that follows him is in a cult. He made being a bigoted shithead a respectable thing.
Donald J trump has deliberately weaponized hatred and mistrust of strangers. It’s not something new, he’s been doing it for decades. More than 10 years ago two men in Boston beat a homeless hispanic man with a pipe breaking his nose and injuring him severely. These men were brothers and they told police “Donald Trump is right there taking our jobs” as their excuse for this violent assault. There are scores of such incidents.
I have two ideas as to why- the loss of ‘third spaces’ and a bit of evolutionary biology.
The loss of third spaces affects our sense of community. A third space is a place other than home and work where you interact with others. A church or a chain restaurant is an example. Some chain restaurants are closing locations and some have filed for bankruptcy. If you take your family to a TGIFridays or a Red Lobster you sit down, interact with your family, and are aware that other families from your community are at other tables. Delivery service and carryout meals have led to loss of business at middle class chain restaurants. People buy food to eat at home with the television and tablets and smart phones active. 20 years ago there was more of a sense of community in American towns and cities, partly because of the prevalence of third spaces.
Another possible contributing factor is a concept from evolutionary biology. The idea is that groups that work well together outcompete groups that do not work well together. This applies to a pack of wolves, a pride of lions, a football team, or any other group of humans. The pack mentality and the ‘us versus them’ instinct in humans is related to this. The US has not recovered economically or culturally from the COVID lockdowns. Shutting down large sections of the economy for several years, and printing trillions of dollars in Congressional spending packages while shutting down the productive economy, has long term effects. I think the economic stress of the last five years has led to an increase of the ‘us versus them’ instinct in US society.
I feel this too, more sexism, racism, homophobia and transphobia! It’s everywhere.
DJT!
Because many politicians, religious leaders, and other people looked to for guidance, are pushing the narrative that all your problems are the fault of people that aren’t like you.
Increased scarcity
The destruction of most community and social ties that used to bind us
Purposeful divisiveness sown by social media
As the economic situation becomes worse people become increasingly hostile to others
Cuz im sick if your shit, Dave.
I could probably list a few other times in history where the hate was worse than now.
“We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, [my opponent] is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who’s to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle-income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values and character.”
Because everyone is angry that the system has broken and everything is unaffordable. It’s always someone else’s fault, and they suck. I, on the other hand, had nothing to do with it.
It’s a vicious circle, people always hate other groups, and nowadays people are getting even more selfish and self-absorbed, so it just keeps getting worse.
I refuse use terms like millennial or Gen X. As if one word can confine and describe an entire group of people. Once you do that, they become “Them” and “Us”.
It seems like over the last 15 years or so, politics and social causes infiltrated people’s lives to the point of no rest (for better or worse). Eventually when people are constantly switched on, then everyone not already on the field start to play ball eventually. This leads to a lot of brewing frustration and resentment, and then people feel the need to just vent out that frustration and stick it to the other group or team.
And of course, no human just takes an attack lying down, so they fire back. And before you know it, our society has moved into trench warfare.
Edit: I’m from eastern Europe. But from here it looks like the reasons are similar if not the same..
Social media organically and social media as a Russian tool to do as much harm as possible to our societies. Their goals are literally to generate and enhance conflicts, destroy trust in science, authorities, governments, medicine, raise extremism etc. Psychologic/information warfare that is a huge part of a hybrid war. The first half of their holy war.
Feel free to look it up yourself. To make it harder I recommend you to filter results older than 2022. For example 2005 – 2018. You will find information about this from various countries, their institutions, intelligence services, journalists etc.
people have been given permission like never before. at least in the US this is a core tenet of the ruling party and their followers love the green light they’ve been given. just look at that woman raising money after calling a kid a n******.
Because its ingrained in our media
There’s a major world leader actively promoting the hate and it emboldens his followers.
Because “tolerance” has swung to the side of absolute absurdity. The mentality of live and let live seems so lovely but it has inherent problems. For example, it is none of my business how a grown man and woman choose to live their lives. They have free will. So , if I see a man screaming at a woman with the “live and let live mentality” I have no right to get involved. In reality. however, of course I would not be complicit to this behavior.
Society has gotten to the point where people’s choices are causing issues with other peoples values and morals so they are drawing a line in the sand.
Probably because “others” kept telling everyone how intolerant they were (when they really weren’t all that intolerant overall) and now “others” are starting to get what they asked for.
Because of social media