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Right, and plenty of conservatives also claim that Fox News is not really conservative anymore. A fact one may not be aware of if they live in this bubble or that. The nature of echo chambers is that it normalizes far from normal behavior/views/actions to the point that then not going even further away from normalcy is seen as toeing the line or even yielding to "the other side."

This is, by far, the most destructive issue with the trend of media spinning everything to conform to the biases of their target demographic.



I completely agree, and I think this is most noticeable on online spaces like twitter. Relenting on a point even just a tad is perceived as being an agent of the "other side". So radical opinions, be it neo-nazism or white supremacy, end up shifting everything rightward. Because even though most people agree, usually that agreement needs to be qualified. And, you give an inch over and over and before you know it you're somewhere entirely different from where you've started.




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