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richardhutnik on 31 May 2012
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Kasz216 said:

I don't think it's anything new.

I just think said people now have a platform for it. Back when Network TV ruled all you had to have a moderate respectful viewpoint. Now it's all about hitting your core demographic. Even less if your on the internet just looking for some support.  It's all demographics.  Just like how we have more cool niche television shows, we have more well... looney political people.

I'd argue actually if you were looking for a "starting point" that it started with Republicans on a larger scale... specifically Neo-cons and a "If you don't agree with us, your with the enemy" claim. That while popular after 9/11 actually started with the cold war. (Though honestly, you'd be surprised just how common this is before then. See Federalists vs anti-federalists)

It's something that just became popular with the Left after Bush as it became something that got adopted by the "douche bag" left. Your brogressives, people who don't know anyone actually poor and Utopian if we gave it a shot it'd work instantly" types for example.

That lady actually has what I call "Super Racist Eyes". In that when I see someone with eyes like that in a video, if there is nothing suggesting what she's saying, i'm just assuming it's something hugely racist and offensive.

Back in the day, when it was understandable maybe to have something called "The Fairness Doctrine", you did end up having limited distribution channels for information.  But now, with cable and all that, and the Internet, everyone goes into their own bubble, hangs around with people with the same views, and comes out more opinionated than ever before, and ever irate that there are those who disagree with them.  These bubbles are very likely what you see where angry mobs get formed.  One would think that, with the Internet, and cable news, people would be able to get views that were tempered with a wider range of opinions, and be deeper and wiser.  But it seems like it isn't so.  Just line up with an aggregator like Drudge Report, or Drudge (left's version of Drudge Report), subscribe to this blogger and that, and end up with your own bubble of reality, you think is the truth, because you chose it.  

Cable went its own way with, after seening Fox News breaking through in partisan favored news, MS's Need Barrack Channel tried to do similar from the left.  And then Air America ended up failing to try to be like Newscorp's offerings.  I believe it is probably a matter of where people go to get info.  Conservatives don't usually break through in documentaries category like the way Michael Moore does, and seem to fail miserably to do something like the Daily Show and Colbert (Seriously, I wish there was a conservative alternative to these shows, but when you have Dennis Miller turn angry old man it doesn't offer much hope).  And liberals can't seem to get the cable broadcasting or radio right.  Go figure.

The "Super Racist Eyes" you noticed are probably part of a more general category of disrespectful hate.  Super Racists likely have that, but it isn't just limited to them, but limited to those who are just outright angry at things, irregardless if racist or not. Similar in hate, probably wiring up the body's chemical output to be a mix of narrowminded focus and rage.  Probably a mob with that would go lynch someone, if given the right symbols to be irate at, and a certain ethic/racial/political group to target.