Comment by kube-system
6 days ago
What I think is different today is -- regardless of how many people organically think this way -- social media is normalizing the idea. We're all being exposed to it.
It's only a minority of people who are radicalized, but it's a growing minority. Radical ideas are more accessible than ever for people to latch on to.
Radical views on violence, social relations, science, politics, distrust of institutions, etc are all way more common than they were in the 90s.
> but it's a growing minority
I’d want to see this interrogated with rigor. The alternate hypothesis, and my null, is a relatively fixed fraction of folks is more connected and visible today than before.
It's been studied pretty widely.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/01/nx-s1-5558304/poll-political-...
> Respondents were asked if they agree with the statement, “Americans may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track?”
Agree:
Disagree:
Off topic: please tell me how you managed that formatting in the agree/disagree section?
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