Everybody’s Generalizing These Days

When I get online, my feeds are bursting full with sweeping generalizations about every kind of demographic group—races, religions, sexes, nationalities…the whole gamut. It wasn’t such a long time ago that this was something people didn’t do publicly or didn’t take seriously. But now it’s all over the place. It’s even pushed up algorithms deliberately by tech billionaires who think it’s fun. How did we get here, and just where is here, exactly?