Precisely. The right-wing hate machine has been churning out hateful rhetoric for years about how people like this gender studies teacher were "contributing to the moral decay" of society.
And this is exactly why we need to regulate this kind of dangerous rhetoric more seriously. The longer we allow it to spew.consequence free, the more these attacks will happen.
I am sympathetic to this concern, but I am also very concerned about the potential for overreach. Tech allows control of the overton window moreso than the mass media of the 20th century. It will be very tempting for whoever is trying to solve the problem of radicalization to also use this power for their own purposes
I do think we should stop using the term "hate" in these contexts, because of its moral connotations. We should say what caused this: radicalization. We all know most of these attacks happen by people who spend too much time in crazy echo chambers
Yuuup. I think some of it is an American export (what with their politics being so...oh, you know), but also we just plain haven't done enough ourselves. I mean, the rhetoric PP is using stokes these kinda flames too.