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by mschuster91 1200 days ago
> 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.

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I did not say or imply anything in that direction.