100% agree. 20 years ago, we were far more tolerant, and hate was generally in the closet. Now the opposite is true because these people have been enabled thanks to the rise of the alt-right.
I believe its internet
amplification of the far right.
they've always been there, and they always will.
but they used to have to wear white hoods and meet by flaming torch light under bridges.
now the *smile* write half the worlds newsfeed.
and ordinary peoples brains are going mushy under the weight of the complete *smile* burrowing in through their eyes.
Take as an example, the term 'woke'
specifically, it refers to a dawning on black Americans of why and how they are disadvantaged.
less specifically, it refers to a calibration of the moral compass.
But far right amplification of bull crap has appropriated it and redefined it as a pretty pissweak insult, as if your moral compass pointing in directions other than North, is a good thing.
to the point, were a non-nasty, ordinary person, will call you 'woke' if you give a homeless person $2