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I hear they've recently been pushing racist and edgy themes like family cohesion, Christianity and a fatphobic healthy lifestyle with exercise. \s

by Kaiyou 7y ago

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krapp 7y ago
And "ironically" inspiring white supremacists to commit mass murder and shout them out in their manifestos.
antihero 7y ago
Such a fun way to spin calling people "degenerates" (literally nazi wording) and promoting a worldview from half a century ago or whatever where people got treated like shit. I mean yeah if you want to be equivalent to a klansmen, I am sure they also promoted "family cohesion" and Christianity. I was on 4chan many years ago, I went to the Anonymous protests in London. I have thick skin and I know not to take stuff seriously, but in the last few years especially it seems like it's become dominated by /pol/ and people who are legitimately white supremacist traditionalist alt-right scum, because those communities seized upon the edgy culture of /pol/ as it used to be and use it as a channel to push their very real non-ironic toxic politics.
- Kaiyou 7y ago
  The way I heard the story everyone could say whatever they wanted on 4chan, but all the discussions were always "won" by the Nazis through better arguments and facts, so everyone else got tired on always getting called out on their own delusions, so they left the place, where only reason and facts prevailed. Hence the necessity to ban them on other platforms, because of the impossibility to win arguments against them. The only way they could keep believing in their delusions (like "people are equal" etc.) was to create safe spaces where they could ban everyone disagreeing with them. Apparently in a truly free space Nazis win all arguments, which makes everyone else leave. The other explanation is "those people are mean and I don't want to hang around mean people", but that's really not all that different from the first explanation.

I hear they've recently been pushing racist and edgy themes like family cohesion, Christianity and a fatphobic healthy lifestyle with exercise. \s

by Kaiyou 7y ago

I hear they've recently been pushing racist and edgy themes like family cohesion, Christianity and a fatphobic healthy lifestyle with exercise. \s

deleted 7y ago

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krapp 7y ago

And "ironically" inspiring white supremacists to commit mass murder and shout them out in their manifestos.

antihero 7y ago

Such a fun way to spin calling people "degenerates" (literally nazi wording) and promoting a worldview from half a century ago or whatever where people got treated like shit. I mean yeah if you want to be equivalent to a klansmen, I am sure they also promoted "family cohesion" and Christianity. I was on 4chan many years ago, I went to the Anonymous protests in London. I have thick skin and I know not to take stuff seriously, but in the last few years especially it seems like it's become dominated by /pol/ and people who are legitimately white supremacist traditionalist alt-right scum, because those communities seized upon the edgy culture of /pol/ as it used to be and use it as a channel to push their very real non-ironic toxic politics.

Kaiyou 7y ago
The way I heard the story everyone could say whatever they wanted on 4chan, but all the discussions were always "won" by the Nazis through better arguments and facts, so everyone else got tired on always getting called out on their own delusions, so they left the place, where only reason and facts prevailed. Hence the necessity to ban them on other platforms, because of the impossibility to win arguments against them. The only way they could keep believing in their delusions (like "people are equal" etc.) was to create safe spaces where they could ban everyone disagreeing with them. Apparently in a truly free space Nazis win all arguments, which makes everyone else leave. The other explanation is "those people are mean and I don't want to hang around mean people", but that's really not all that different from the first explanation.