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Most of those have happened before, and within the last ~100/120 years or so (indeed, lots around the 1920s) - Jim Crow laws, WW1, Spanish Flu, WW2, the Great Depression, the Red Scare / McCarthyism, the Civil Rights movement, etc, etc

I think the point is is there something different this time, perhaps because of the internet or social media? Or is it just that a lot of these things are overlapping? Because where everything you mention is a serious problem, most of them are smaller versions of problems that we've been through already.

On the front page right now: (Nature paper: Negativity drives online news consumption - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4 )



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