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There's a difference between monkey-see-monkey-do and intentional group self-radicalisation. You don't become a racist neo-Nazi teenage mass murderer de novo.
by Philpax 2y ago
There's a difference between monkey-see-monkey-do and intentional group self-radicalisation. You don't become a racist neo-Nazi teenage mass murderer de novo.
- asdff 2y agoA subset of the population will always be murderous and delusional about something. Just a fact of biology that not everyone is physically or mentally fit.
- Philpax 2y agoSure. It's probably not a good thing we have spaces designed to cook the brains of users to the extent that their weakest links are driven to act on their worst impulses and commit ideologically-driven murder, though. I'm generally on the side of free speech, but having visited /pol/, I can't say it is/was a good place for its inhabitants or society at large.
- asdff 2y agoI didn't realize ideologically-driven murder was an internet phenomenon