• Daniel Jackson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    4chan is just a bunch of people pretending to be racist/homophobic/… for the lulz. Only a minority are hardcore trump supporters, neonazis, …

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      disinformation, deflection and plausible denialability

      you can be an outright racist on 4chan … if someone debates you, you can entertain yourself endlessly

      if you aren’t a racist … you get to have some fun … and tell everyone you are fake

      if you are an actual racist … you get to affirm your deluded beliefs … and tell everyone you are fake

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      My issue is even if that’s true it kind of doesn’t matter because it’s making the people who are ACTUALLY racist/homophobic/name your bigotry flavor feel comfortable enough to be genuinely horrendous. Fucking with the Overton window like that ain’t cool.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    “All violence is caused by cis white men” politician said that quote and I’ve seen many people defend the statement. I don’t think it’s true and my knowledge of history makes me think it’s not true but I’m not sure if I’m correct since colonialism did do a lot of damage.

  • Sooperstition@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Hot take thread? Mumford and Sons from a decade ago was Good Actually. Fuck that one guy who turned out to be a fascist tho