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CMV: The world has become more intolerant today

Views have been changed, thanks! 

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In all honesty this is an essay question from an exam, but it's already over and submitted, can't change it anymore. I argued that it was true, but I'm curious about the other view.

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There are several types of intolerance — intolerance of race, of religion, of others and of other opinions.

In countries around the world, there are anti-immigrant sentiments. Many complain of people from other countries coming to 'steal' their jobs. The recent Brexit vote is an example of this, as the 'Leave' campaigners argued that leaving the EU stops the open border policy from being applied to Britain, hence preventing people from less-well-off European countries from moving to Britain and entering it's job market easily. The success of Trump in his arguments to place more surveillance on the Muslims, along with his blatant dislike of the Mexicans, also show that people are generally becoming more intolerant of others.

With advancements in technology and machine-learning algorithms allowing for more personalised content, people begin to look for communities that share similar views as them, leading to the 'echo chamber' effect where people only subscribe to their own views, and deviant views are labelled as 'trolls' and shot down quickly, only making people more intolerant of other opinions. This is in contrast to traditional media where it served a general public, hence people were exposed to different opinions. 

Hence I feel the world has become more intolerant today.
gpt
We humans have always been wary of 'others.' You are right in that this wariness manifests itself as anti-immigration today. However, a few decades ago, that fear was practiced as outright racism. Go back a century and that 'otherness' is shown by slavery. Go back even further and it's constant wars between groups. It seems disingenuous to suggest that today's prejudice is worse than all that we suffered in the centuries past.