artifex@piefed.social to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agoU.S. Political Polarization Didn’t Rise Gradually—It Spiked After 2008, Study Findsthedebrief.orgexternal-linkmessage-square20linkfedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkU.S. Political Polarization Didn’t Rise Gradually—It Spiked After 2008, Study Findsthedebrief.orgartifex@piefed.social to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square20linkfedilinkfile-text
Polarization in the U.S. didn’t rise gradually. A new machine-learning study shows it surged after 2008- but why?
minus-squareartifex@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 days agoI feel like it’s a toss up between this (old-school racism) and occupy wall street looking too scary to the bigwigs (who had to amplify racism and invent “woke” as a new wedge)
I feel like it’s a toss up between this (old-school racism) and occupy wall street looking too scary to the bigwigs (who had to amplify racism and invent “woke” as a new wedge)