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Have you been out in the real world recently? Members of the species tend to use any excuse to generalise, or weigh things up against pithy and blinkered sentiments. The flip-side of the wonderful internet (and yes, it's fucking amazing) is the way these lazy perceptions have had their impact amplified. It's not just a case of Daily Mail flavoured bigotry seeping into the national consciousness and helping to chip away at the rights and opportunities of the social outliers; it's first-page-of-google-results / thickipedia rhetoric being levered into the collective cannon of knowledge.
Anyway, this is the way it's always been. With power comes a need for responsibility (in the broadest sense), and the internet is extremely powerful. Perhaps absolutely so.