Comment on Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it
N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoDisinformation is a cancer. In the absence of a shared nucleus of objective facts, all kinds of bullshit tumors fester. The horrors of Nazi genocide get downplayed, and the process of finding scapegoats to blame for economic problems starts again.
Social media has enabled alternative facts and history. The lack of education gives fertile soil for stupidity to flourish. Desperate economic conditions give the motivation. Struggling, angry people can easily be brainwashed to blame other victims of the system, rather than the billionaires causing everyone’s suffering.
zedcell@lemmygrad.ml 2 days ago
Or white supremacy is an appealing ideology for sections of the global North populations who would rather enact massive violence to ensure a comfortable life for themselves than join a highly disruptive movement that threatens to knock them down several pegs on the world totem pole.
For consideration: redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/