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[โ€“] TechyDad@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely terrifying and can be surprising, but I think it's easier to demonize unfamiliar groups than to demonize a well-known one.

This is also why "colleges indoctrinate students" is wrong even though college students do tend to get more liberal. When college students leave their home towns and go to college, they run into people of differing backgrounds. Stereotypes get challenged and broken to pieces. The college kids return to their home towns unwilling to engage in the demonization because suddenly it's not some faceless Other they are railing against, but an actual person that they have interacted with.

You described my college experience to a T, it was hard going home and realizing my family, not just my community, is plagued by hatred of people they never met.