Unfortunately not. Neo right-wing parties keep cropping up, just look at the AfD in Germany, which skitters on the borderline of being banned as a political party, because of what its politicians say. Several of their candidates have been dropped, because they overstepped the line into hate speech.
BUT, for those of us interested in IT, the problem is even worse. Just look at Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction. Algorithms are being designed and implemented, that aren’t necessarily in-and-of-themselves racist, but they need data to work and very often, without thinking, the people fill the datasets with “racist” information. They take historical data for medical histories, because they need a working basis in order to function.
They then get fed information that a certain area has a high rate of dental problems, for example, so if you come from that area you pay more for dental insurance, but the only reason why there were more, expensive dental problems is that the area was earlier a solely black community that couldn’t afford regular dental checkups, so they only went to the dentist when there was a major problem and they had no other option. The same can be shown for vaccination, certain diseases related to poverty. Education and chances of getting into university or getting a job are also often down to racially biased historical data. Or even worse, the known problem with the system used by the courts to work out whether somebody will re-offend.
The people writing the algorithm did so with the best intentions and no racism in mind. But then they have to take the only historical data that is available, and even if they leave race out of it, the results are still racist due to outlying data - for example if you grew up in a ghetto, the offender profiling system will see a lot of crime in that area and a lot of re-offending, so you will be automatically labelled as a possible re-offender and get a longer sentence. You come from a rich, privilleged suburb or gated community, heck there is hardly any crime there and no evidence of re-offending, so you get a lighter sentence.
Why? Because the system sees a black person coming from a ghetto or a white person coming from a privilleged background? No, because of your postal address, regardless of your skin colour. The historical data shows that… And that leads, unconciously, to racism.
I’m not explaining it as well as Cathy, and there she clearly explains it with dozens of other examples, and not just racism, there are many other ways in which our lives are screwed up by unthinking algorithms that collect the wrong data to give biased results that are detrimental to human society as a hole - University ranking systems, job candidate selection, insurance, credit scores, the stock market you name it, there are brilliant people writing algorithms that are deeply flawed, because they don’t understand the society and the data they are manipulating, they just understand the math. They are not being deliberately destructive or racist, but the results of there work are just that.