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Well, to me these seem like some adolescents trying to be funny and go against the mainstream. They post swastikas and call racial slurs because they know they
by fiatjaf 8y ago
Well, to me these seem like some adolescents trying to be funny and go against the mainstream. They post swastikas and call racial slurs because they know they shouldn't be doing that. They aren't really nazis, right? They don't even know what a nazi is.
You can call this "decentralized reddit" a bad place, as it really is, but you can't say it's because it's "full of right-wing people". These adolescents are not "right-wing people".
- viraptor 8y ago> They aren't really nazis, right? At some point... is there a difference? If you find yourself in a group "ironically" screaming you all support X for long enough, soon you'll find that some of you actually support X. And that you enabled those people.
- heyitsguay 8y agoWell and besides, the actual content on the site seems to skew alt-right pretty heavily, whether the racial slurs and swastikas are ironic or not. Taken altogether, it paints a pretty clear picture of a voat-style forum that will alienate most other people if it stays that way.
- mirimir 8y agoThey're there because they've been excluded from mainstream sites. It may seem extreme, but one way to assess how uncensorable something is by its content of stuff that you hate. Even stuff like child porn that any sane person would hate. So you just ignore it.
- mirimir 8y agoI get what you say. But it's arguable that most of those actual WWII Nazis didn't really know much about anything. I mean, watch Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will". There's stuff in there that reminds me a lot of Young Pioneer camps (not surprising, I know) and Woodstock (except for the lack of drugs). My point is that they were just belonging to something that seemed cool.