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<blockquote data-quote="areyouaweir" data-source="post: 1499494" data-attributes="member: 18230">Well, let me put it this way:Before social media, could you imagine someone openly claiming that gender is a social construct, and that crossdressing was normal? In my opinion, if someone tried to push that narrative pre social media, they probably would&#039;ve been beaten and or sent to a mental institution. I don&#039;t think anyone would even have the courage to come out and say something like that back then.Or better yet, can you imagine someone talking openly about white supremacy? Reparations for black people?This stuff is only enabled by social media, it would&#039;ve taken much, much longer to gain any traction at all without it.It&#039;s insidious because people have always looked towards corporations and media to gain a basis for normalcy, but when every institution slowly starts to change what&#039;s normal, people&#039;s idea of normal also changes. Few people even realize the usage statistics of a site like Twatter, something like 80% of tweets are from 10% of the users, and most of the tweets are from women. This is public info too, not something hidden. Not to mention the vast amounts of bots that post the same propaganda from different accounts. People&#039;s minds have been dumbed down to not be able to critically think about this stuff.We could agree to disagree, but I just don&#039;t see us being where we are now without social media&#039;s help to move things along.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="areyouaweir, post: 1499494, member: 18230"] Well, let me put it this way: Before social media, could you imagine someone openly claiming that gender is a social construct, and that crossdressing was normal? In my opinion, if someone tried to push that narrative pre social media, they probably would've been beaten and or sent to a mental institution. I don't think anyone would even have the courage to come out and say something like that back then. Or better yet, can you imagine someone talking openly about white supremacy? Reparations for black people? This stuff is only enabled by social media, it would've taken much, much longer to gain any traction at all without it. It's insidious because people have always looked towards corporations and media to gain a basis for normalcy, but when every institution slowly starts to change what's normal, people's idea of normal also changes. Few people even realize the usage statistics of a site like Twatter, something like 80% of tweets are from 10% of the users, and most of the tweets are from women. This is public info too, not something hidden. Not to mention the vast amounts of bots that post the same propaganda from different accounts. People's minds have been dumbed down to not be able to critically think about this stuff. We could agree to disagree, but I just don't see us being where we are now without social media's help to move things along. [/QUOTE]

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