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Originally Posted by DVaut1
Actually I think a lot of these stories just went underreported before and Trump's election makes them fashionable to report on.
So my take:
1. tons of Americans are unvarnished racist *******s and these racially, religiously motivated incidents of violence and derp were actually frighteningly common pre Trump
2. the media was largely disinterested on putting this on display
3. it's now decent clickbait so we're talking about it
I'm a little aghast at the media and some liberals who are making this about Trump. I mean I'm sure he's maybe triggering some bad impulses but I feel like America's unreformed troglodyte masses saying wretched racist ****, terrorizing minorities, being clowns -- that was pre Trump America too. I feel like I must have lived in some other country for a long time but I guess I now welcome everyone to realize the depths of the inhumanity surrounding us.
This is exactly right. And the next insight to have is the realization that while all of what you just said is definitely true, it is ALSO true that this is the best the world has ever been and it is continuing to improve, on all these fronts, at an impressive rate.
Blissful naivete obviously wrong, but profound despair way wrong too