Quote (thesnipa @ Oct 19 2020 01:36pm)
Just as a hypothetical, black guy in the park, white nationalist comes up and screams at him "go back to africa nigger, stop taking my tax money for your welfare". how long do you think white nationalist should go to jail, if any?
Probably get fined for some form of disorderly conduct but probably not jailed.
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Oct 19 2020 01:35pm)
Actually, it goes back to at least 1994, when Republicans, led by "nuclear" New Gingrich, seized control of the House for the first time in I think 50 years and introduced as far more combative, polarizing style of politics. The 90s are also the time brazenly partisan news channels rose to prominence, like CNN and Fox News. And last but not least, the 90s are also the time when the internet became big, which had big ramifications for the way people inform themselves. The internet facilitates the formation of different echo chambers or bubbles whose inhabitants live in alternate realities. It also sowed confusion and distrust as it broke the traditional media's stranglehold on information and made it much more difficult to spike a scandal or to manipulate all the people in a particular direction.
CNN was not partisan in the 90's. Their shift left was pretty recent.
Fox was also founded explicitly as a right wing propaganda channel, so there's also that important piece of context.