The fash pay very close attention to how permissive spaces both online and offline are to them. Once they find a place a place where slurs are fine, reactionary talking points are fine, where outright nazi shit is fine, word spreads quickly and you have an infestation at hand. Then they move from "we just want to hang out and shoot the shit, pls keep politics out of this" to agitprop and recruitment and you have a bunch of fash hitlering off 24/7. After this has gone on for a while, pushing back becomes tiresome for libs and lefties and that space is lost.
This is why strict moderation is necessary in every online medium and why you need a robust antifa irl. You need to curb that kind of stuff before it takes root, or you'll regret it later on. But publishers are reluctant to do that because they don't want to miss out on the nazi dollar. This is part of why chuds get so worked up about inane pop culture topics. They do not actually care about boob armor, but they do care about controlling online communities with a lot of young members who don't have solid political views yet and are therefore are easily influenced. This goes doubly for communities where the fash core demo of frustrated white boys is overrepresented. Same reason why Bannon picked Gamergate for recruiting.
The fash pay very close attention to how permissive spaces both online and offline are to them. Once they find a place a place where slurs are fine, reactionary talking points are fine, where outright nazi shit is fine, word spreads quickly and you have an infestation at hand. Then they move from "we just want to hang out and shoot the shit, pls keep politics out of this" to agitprop and recruitment and you have a bunch of fash hitlering off 24/7. After this has gone on for a while, pushing back becomes tiresome for libs and lefties and that space is lost.
This is why strict moderation is necessary in every online medium and why you need a robust antifa irl. You need to curb that kind of stuff before it takes root, or you'll regret it later on. But publishers are reluctant to do that because they don't want to miss out on the nazi dollar. This is part of why chuds get so worked up about inane pop culture topics. They do not actually care about boob armor, but they do care about controlling online communities with a lot of young members who don't have solid political views yet and are therefore are easily influenced. This goes doubly for communities where the fash core demo of frustrated white boys is overrepresented. Same reason why Bannon picked Gamergate for recruiting.