I really wish I was able to enjoy meeting new people and making new friends without worrying if they’re secretly a bigot, or even a radical bigot
What an intense read:
"the propensity that all of us have for leading contradictory lives. We have a great capacity for compartmentalizing as humans."
Telegram has been a conduit for years for the slow radicalization of white supremacist ideologies, as it has been for many other taboo subjects. The platform has been a honey trap for recruitment and propaganda for years, as well as for authorities to identify who is consuming and hence playing out the content.
The irony of an EDM DJ hating on LGBTQ+ and POC. What the hell?
I can relate to this, when I met my lab partner in my first university chemistry class he seemed like a normal likeable bro. Only later did I discover that he was the school's most notorious racist troll on the school's social media.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
