Good and bad. Now everyone can see racist s*** happening without being able to deny it, but it also gave racists a platform

Only people who live through the media believe in race relations.

Look at what you see in the media, look at the race relations polls, then compare that to how your actual life is when you go outside.

Are you really living on edge where races are at each others necks on a regular basis like this (and no im not talking about the asian situation because thats not the same, people were saying race relations were bad LONG before that)

Don't fall into the trap.

No.

KTT2 has made race relations worse.

I think that may be it. We're seeing more of it. As more people gain access to technology and social media, the rest of gain access to viewpoints and perspectives that we did not before. S*** has always been grimy, we just didn't have cameras in our hands 24/7 and the ability to instantly upload.

race relations continually get better. Even since 911 they have gotten better

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This.

Social media has f***ed up alot of social dynamics though, and causes mental illness.

This would only make sense if social media was an accurate representation of reality, which is far from the truth.

I would say that social media has absolutely amplified hate. People have made a full-time hobby out of combing through social media and trying to sensationalize anything remotely race-related.

you just see it now.

Social media inherently increases and influences polarization and race is literally the most polarizing thing so it was inevitable.

That and the fact that even with the current "cancel culture" climate most of the things said online go without so-called "real world" consequence.

It DID f*** up mad social dynamics though if were being real

But yeah it is just more open and you notice it now since everyone got a camera in their pocket basically

Thing that is most ridiculous is people are stupid enough to film themselves committing crimes

This isn’t a good way to look at things.

Gun violence is way down over the past 30 years, but we hear and see about it more than ever.

You can’t really make any kind of correlation between what’s actually happening and how much it’s being talked about.

source on that please?

npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/05/07/181998015/rate-of-u-s-gun-violence-has-fallen-since-1993-study-says

This is an outdated study but if you just google the topic there’s all kinds of research that’s been done on it

Social media has just made racism more visible

Racism has ALWAYS been strong and apparent in our country, it’s just social media has made it easier to expose that hateful truth that racism is still just as strong and rampant as it was 100 years ago or even 50 years ago....

misinformation spread by big media does

Twitter isn’t real

When people say this I question their knowledge of history

It’s pretty terrifying how this generation that grew up their whole life with social media essentially have a completely warped view of reality

Not at all, it's now "cool" to be politically aware and racists get rightfully dragged on social media. In the 90s cracking racist jokes in school was probly no biggie, but make a racist tiktok now and your future is out the window. Social media just gave dumbass racists a platform to expose themselves

Blast these mfs into the 80s and see if they're still asking this question

The racists in the comments are real people most of the time. It's a small sample size but socials really do reflect our societies

type "I was born in the wrong era" and they black as hell.

Half the threads in life section are people who put too much stock into what people on social media are saying