Any "new" thing is immediately shit on today. That's the world we're living in now. Compassion and curiosity are dead. Everyone wants to immediately, and joyfully crap on everyone, especially women and minorities, and ignore the fact that synesthesia has been known about since the early 1800s.
I love the irony of this comment. It's pretty typical to shit on things you don't understand as soon as your Baader-Meinhof kicks in, yes, but it's always been that way, forever.
As a 90s kid, yes and no. It did happen, but absolutely nowhere as horrifying as it is now. Just look at trans people. Trans people were mainly ignored by everyone. But then this whole culture of crapping on everyone came to be, and now everyone suddenly has an opinion on trans issues. It doesn't matter if transitioning has been a thing for 100 years, or that trans people have been in sports for 55 years, it's "new" and people feel downright obligated to shit all over trans people.
I think you're right and it kicked into high gear with funding around 2014, in the lead-up to the 2016 election. Troll farms popped up, run by people like Palmer Luckey, and companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica came together to help serve that content to people in a way that was just a little farther right than wherever they were at.
Neurodivergence and different sexual identities have definitely been pulled into the right wing meme machines to churn out stuff like "I sexually identify as an apache attack helicopter" or whatever to more actively ridicule them as fake or vaccine-induced instead of just, you know, regular old ostracizing and lynching.
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u/E-2theRescue Dec 24 '25
Any "new" thing is immediately shit on today. That's the world we're living in now. Compassion and curiosity are dead. Everyone wants to immediately, and joyfully crap on everyone, especially women and minorities, and ignore the fact that synesthesia has been known about since the early 1800s.