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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
And the silent "majority" who believes these two groups deserve mention in the same breath, both radical, both terrible, both somehow equal, well, they're idiots too.
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I tend to think these people are getting mentioned in the same breath because of the weird intersection between citizen journalism, social media technology, and society's seemingly insatiable addiction to rubbernecking drama. This trifecta has enabled the voices of once-marginalized and obscured extremists. And extremists bring drama - something major networks and online streaming services can't stop falling over each other to be the first to show it.