>>21340065>Why wasn't there any racism in 2000's?This one:
>>21340067>>21340071>but why?These ones:
>>21340074 >>21340097 >>21340078 But *especially* these ones:
>>21340086 >>21340089 >>21340157The 90's popular media was very comfortable presenting the various races as friends, black people could be cool without being niggers, we celebrated our social and progressive achievements, and while there were obvious tensions - these differences were being slowly naturalized and alleviated. Good times.
However, in the mid to late 2000's previously niche political ideas on both ends would become progressively more main stream; right-leaning reactionary conspiracy media (previously niche radio commentators becoming talkshow hosts like Glen Beck, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson), AND radical socialist/communist progressive talking points that had previously only existed in cloistered academic spaces, getting platformed and catapulted into mainstream media and political thought, thanks to the changing online environment.
Specifically due to phones. Essentially, once 'normal' people gained full 24/7 unlimited access to the internet (I think in 2009) the public largely became schizophrenic and any dialogue or social commentary became impossible.
So now we just kind of live in a state where, like, 95% of everything political or social is completely detached from reality (if not completely fabricated) and that's the new normal.
