Which of these years do you think altered the racial animus the most in the US and Western world?

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[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

None of the above.

The only thing those events have in common is they happened in the age of social media.

But the actual damage against Racial Nationalism took place during the Cold War.

For proof, look at South Africa and Rhodesia. Both countries shared Western values and even fought Communism, yet it was major powers like the U.S and UK who ran boycotts and blockades against them. All for just having Whites still remain in power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beira_Patrol

The warning signs that diversity would in end chaos has always been around for decades.

[–]Nasser[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Obviously the 1960s shifted the racial animus the most in the US/western world, not debating that. However of those 3 years specifically, which do you think changed things the most?

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I would only consider 2016, because that's when Alt-Right groups where being forcibly deplatformed for the first time. Youtube/Twitter/Reddit are all significant places for information but they now have a left-wing bias instead of being truly neutral.

But the riots and tensions are just following older examples. The 90s had the Rodney King riots and OJ Simpson chase. And even before that, there was MLK Jr's destruction.

[–]Fonched 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There was some censorship in 2016 but that is more of a 2017 (what I'd consider to be 4th place to 2012/16/20) and beyond thing because of Unite the Right.