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by johnnyjeans 426 days ago
> it feels like once that kind of stuff isn't punished, it starts to snowball a change in the attitudes of the site as a whole.

Considering the site has been around for over 20 years and people still call out and flame racism, I think this is an uncharitable and unfounded cynicism. I'm not sure declarative claims of 3rd order effects in a system so chaotic are capable of being accurate.
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KennyBlanken 425 days ago
Multiple white supremacist mass shooters have been 4chan users.

4chan cheered on the Buffalo shooter who was live updating a 4chan thread during his murder spree: https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/4chan-moderation-buffalo...

The christchurch shooter was a 4chan regular https://theconversation.com/christchurch-terrorist-discussed...

The whole "boogaloo" white nationalist/supremacist movement started on 4chan:

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/mcinnes-molyneux...

Stop whitewashing 4chan's history.

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HideousKojima 425 days ago
And the Zizian murder cult sprang out of the bay area rationalist community and trans rights advocacy, what's your point?
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ToucanLoucan 425 days ago
You say this like the rationalist community and 4chan edgelords aren't two circles with an incredible amount of overlap.
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filoleg 425 days ago
> You say this like the rationalist community and 4chan edgelords aren't two circles with an incredible amount of overlap.

They are not.

Rationalists are the crowd that would attract typical Bay Area tech yuppies. Which is something that 4chan seems to despise with passion and makes merciless fun on.

Just go on /g/ (the technology board) and see any mentions of bay area, rationalists, or tech companies/startups. If you believe there is a significant overlap, then they surely are hiding it really well there by mercilessly mocking everything related to any of those topics.

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potato3732842 426 days ago
I think people, whether they know it or not, rightly realize that race is too simplistic of a way to mark people as good/bad or whatever so even in communities that would be fine with racism it's gonna catch a lot of shit for simply not being a good way to accomplish its goal.
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