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by dkiok21k 1203 days ago
I never said otherwise. I said a forum full of hatespeech/nazis is not _automatically_ a "toxic" place. It may be "violent", or "dangerous", and other things. If you can outright see what they are up to, and they are open about it, it is not toxic. Membership may indeed become toxic for particular individuals later on. I didn't say it won't.
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Quit gaslighting your definition of toxic, Stan.
> I said a forum full of hatespeech/nazis is not _automatically_ a "toxic" place.

The key thing is, sooner or later just like a pond full of toxic mining waste, the toxic waste seeps through and eventually the dams fully break.

We've seen exactly this in politics - it began with Trump and others spreading "birther" conspiracy myths in the Obama time, progressed with the Tea Party and culminated in a full-blown coup attempt where mass casualties were only barely averted.

If you just let a pond of toxic waste accumulate and don't do anything to clean it up, you will inevitably head towards disaster.

I did not say or imply anything in that direction.