• ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Right wingers aren't mentally ill theyre just wrong and have reprehensible morals.

      Please stop using mentally ill as an insult. Fascists love that, see R word, calling people autistic or schizophrenic as an insult, etc.

      • Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Well, Nazi existed before the internet and would exist without it. They didn’t wait for the internet to enable themselves. There can’t be zero downside for having a 100% free platform, I do agree.

        • stratoscaster@lemmy.zip
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          1 year ago

          Yeah but Nazism spread via propaganda, which is what dogwhistling is a form of.

          The Internet is the largest spreader of propaganda that humanity has ever seen, so it's not surprising that it helped revitalize neo-nazism and fascism is general. It also served to make satire and actual radicalized behavior harder to detect. A lot of the time, 4chan boards use this "edgy satire" format to normalize the behavior (to an extent). See: the "MAP" misinformation campaign they did and how it reinforced actual pedophilia and demonized LGBT groups