The first step in any propaganda campaign is to get people to stop seeing the "other side" as people - to demonize them and create an "us vs them" mindset.
Yet in many cases the internet has reinforced "us vs them". With the internet, someone can hang out with a community of like minded people and limit their exposure to people they disagree with. Those identities get set in even more, whether it be politics, religion, activism, or fandom. It may be my perception, but it seems like in the past 5-7 years, activism has become a lot more shrill, a lot angrier, way more demonizing of the other side.
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Date: 2008-11-29 09:28 pm (UTC)Yet in many cases the internet has reinforced "us vs them". With the internet, someone can hang out with a community of like minded people and limit their exposure to people they disagree with. Those identities get set in even more, whether it be politics, religion, activism, or fandom. It may be my perception, but it seems like in the past 5-7 years, activism has become a lot more shrill, a lot angrier, way more demonizing of the other side.