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How To Change Alt Right Minds, with ContraPoints

Offline with Jon Favreau

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How Did the Internet Become Facist in 20 17?

M, how did the internet become facist in 20 17? I mean, i think what happened is, you have. so there's this dynamic with the internet as a forum for ideas. People who feel that their thoughts are sort of suppressed and unspeakable will assemble on line to discuss them. So i watch this happen in the late two thousands with atheism. There were all these people on line writing about atheism, making utivities about aheism. And a lot of the time, whach you had is like a lot of people who had very religious upbringings. But on line, this kind of flake marginalized, like fringe a sort of belief system.

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