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Question: has anyone actually encountered a Nazi on Twitter first-hand? The way mainstream journalists go on about them, you’d think they were everywhere!

xena 4y ago
Yes, when you are openly genderqueer on Twitter like I am they tend to sprout up like weeds constantly. It requires constant vigilance and continuous pruning of things to avoid them shitting up your feed. It also helps to add their shibboleths to your ignorelists so that they just get hidden automatically.
mikece 4y ago
The only literal Nazi I've seen on Twitter was also -- literally! -- a grammar Nazi: https://twitter.com/BenjaminRamm/status/473819950394900480 https://twitter.com/BenjaminRamm/status/473819950394900480
someNameIG 4y ago
I think a lot just don't say they are and use dog whistles and such. They want to radicalise the "norms", and they know that the vast majority will just won't pay attention if they come out saying they're a nazi straight away. When the Ye things happened I got in an argument with a holocaust denier on Twitter, and looking at their profile that's all they ever talked about. They never said they were a nazi, but they never gave an answer to it when I asked. It was "just asking questions".
sussmannbaka 4y ago
they are everywhere. since twitter mostly shows you followed content and most people don’t engage deeper, they stay conveniently out of sight for people unfamiliar with the platform. the main intersection point is in trending threads by journalists (which - surprise! - is why they go on about them a lot) both because they really mainstream journalism and also because it provides them with easy reach. I’ve reported hundreds and gotten at least a couple dozen banned before, not for having wrong opinions but for doing crimes on the internet. you can guess what their other targets look like and who they follow on twitter, they don’t deviate a lot from the stereotype.

xena 4y ago

Yes, when you are openly genderqueer on Twitter like I am they tend to sprout up like weeds constantly. It requires constant vigilance and continuous pruning of things to avoid them shitting up your feed. It also helps to add their shibboleths to your ignorelists so that they just get hidden automatically.

mikece 4y ago

The only literal Nazi I've seen on Twitter was also -- literally! -- a grammar Nazi: https://twitter.com/BenjaminRamm/status/473819950394900480 https://twitter.com/BenjaminRamm/status/473819950394900480

someNameIG 4y ago

I think a lot just don't say they are and use dog whistles and such. They want to radicalise the "norms", and they know that the vast majority will just won't pay attention if they come out saying they're a nazi straight away. When the Ye things happened I got in an argument with a holocaust denier on Twitter, and looking at their profile that's all they ever talked about. They never said they were a nazi, but they never gave an answer to it when I asked. It was "just asking questions".

sussmannbaka 4y ago

they are everywhere. since twitter mostly shows you followed content and most people don’t engage deeper, they stay conveniently out of sight for people unfamiliar with the platform. the main intersection point is in trending threads by journalists (which - surprise! - is why they go on about them a lot) both because they really mainstream journalism and also because it provides them with easy reach. I’ve reported hundreds and gotten at least a couple dozen banned before, not for having wrong opinions but for doing crimes on the internet. you can guess what their other targets look like and who they follow on twitter, they don’t deviate a lot from the stereotype.