Those online pals were happy to explain that all girls lie—especially about rape. And they had lots more knowledge to impart. They told Sam that Islam is an inherently violent religion and that Jews run global financial networks. (We’re Jewish and don’t know anyone who runs anything, but I guess the evidence was convincing.) They insisted that the wage gap is a fallacy, that feminazis are destroying families, that people need guns to protect themselves from government incursions onto private property. They declared that women who abort their babies should be jailed.
This is scary if people hold all of these beliefs.
Any one of these in isolation could be debated, looked at and discussed in a more subtle, measured way. Except maybe abortion, but that’s my bias showing through (pro women’s choice fwiw)
Holding all of these? I wouldn’t even want to start talking to someone like that.
This is a scary article, even allowing for embellishment and bias on the parts of the parents, who are after all reporting the story as they saw/experienced it.
The Google searches flooded his developing brain with endless bias-confirming “proof” to back up whichever specious alt-right standard was being hoisted that week. Each set of results acted like fertilizer sprinkled on weeds: A forest of distortion flourished.
What to do? :(
That said, seems you could use google (and by proxy, the internet) to prop up whatever beliefs you wish.
meme-world was subject to a hierarchy as rigid and byzantine as England’s class system
Ok, what is this all about? This is news to me, and I thought I was internet savvy…:(
I’ll stop posting quotes from this article, but thankyou @Alstein for linking it, it’s a fascinating piece of reading, very thought provoking.
