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Cascadian's avatar

"What if we talk and socialize and cooperate and fall in love with the people from our online crowds, and grow terminally apart from the people next door?"

Didn't The Big Sort sort that out? People just moved. Our neighbors are more like us than ever.

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Maryah Haidery's avatar

RightтАжand thatтАЩs the problem. We donтАЩt know many people *not* like us and so we find them incomprehensible and when that happens, we either stereotype them or dehumanize them and neither of those things historically ends well.

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Joe Carlson's avatar

Case in point: "Biden (or Trump in 2016) could NOT have won. I don't know a single person who voted for him!" (not my original thought or quote btw)

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