I really dislike this idea that social media is somehow to blame. It's too superficial.
Right-wing hate speech dominates social media because it's the normative position of our society. All of that existed long before social media. The only reason people think otherwise is probably because they were too young to observe it.
Segregation only officially ended ~60 years ago. Even after that we have had, and even continue to have, economic segregation.
Slavery might've been officially abolished ~160 years ago but it exists to this day in the form of convict leasing.
Queer people were criminalized and persecuted up until the late 20th century.
Women only really gained bodily autonomy in the 1960s and 1970s (and lost some of it in 2022).
Social media simply reflects how popular all of these ideas still are.
Right-wing hate speech dominates social media because it's the normative position of our society. All of that existed long before social media. The only reason people think otherwise is probably because they were too young to observe it.
Segregation only officially ended ~60 years ago. Even after that we have had, and even continue to have, economic segregation.
Slavery might've been officially abolished ~160 years ago but it exists to this day in the form of convict leasing.
Queer people were criminalized and persecuted up until the late 20th century.
Women only really gained bodily autonomy in the 1960s and 1970s (and lost some of it in 2022).
Social media simply reflects how popular all of these ideas still are.