Polarisation
and radicalisation of views might become two of the main consequences of the
current health tsunami. People will withdraw into their little familiar spaces
and will end up by seeing everybody who is outside of the small circle as a
potential threat. Everyone will be perceived as either belonging or being a
stranger. In the best of cases, they will look at them with a great dose of
indifference. Political activists, from both extremes will try to take
advantage of those feelings. There is a serious risk of seeing the extremist
positions becoming more combative. The point is to be able to spot such trends
early enough and be able to decry them. There are many tasks ahead, in these extraordinarily
complex times. One of them is for sure to oppose any move towards
radicalisation and identity politics.
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