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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Racism/white nationalism is out on full display in the world. While there are plenty of hateful sacks of shit so stupid that they see people with different skin color and assume they're bad and dangerous, there are also far, far more who are just going along with the flow and trends and don't want to be punished by the system, by daddy turnip, by his administration, or by the other people who are also going along with it and jumping onto the bandwagon out of laziness and apathy.

This is how social attitudes are changed rapidly, it's happened over and over in history. It just takes a handful of people normalizing something that most people would reject for entire empires to be toppled and for stable systems to be torn down.

If we were all broadly more aware of how fragile everything is and how much power we really have as groups, I like to think we would have a different world. I doubt we'll see it though.