It has taken me quite a while to work through my own feelings on these things, but what I've come to recognize is that one of the largest problems that generations who grew up online have, is that we've been putting too much stock in trying to understand issues simply through the Internet, rather than actually getting involved in the real world and seeing what's going on first hand.

Frankly, I'm actually leaning towards the notion that much of this propaganda is intentionally designed to provoke people until they actually do that. The real issue comes from the true believers who will stick to what they perceive as "their side" so faithfully that they never once seek dialogue outside of confirming forums, and then go off to take action entirely on their own, based upon little other than the (false) forms within their imagination.