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.

I'm more convinced the majority of crazy posts are by disinformation trolls that plague all social media now.

It's also just generally much easier to have and express extremist views when you're 14 years old. That shit usually gets unpalatable as your brain matures though, and you figure out why we don't actually live like the rest of the animal kingdom.

I thought this was well-known. They're trolls first and foremost - I'd like to cite the whole 👌-hand-symbol fiasco as evidence.

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

This argument was already settled https://edition.cnn.com/...

Came here to say this. Glad you were here.

You take that back

Japan: am I a joke to you!?

It's nowhere close to true even with the most revisionist views of history - what's also funny is the definition of white also isn't some set in stone thing and has changed greatly over time.

Colonialism absolutely fucked things up in large parts of the world (all of it?) but it wasn't just done by anglo/white dominant countries though England and Spain together account for a loooot of it.

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