Mikey Brown wrote:morepork wrote:It's an internet myth.
Not quite sure if you’re being serious here? There’s a massive amount of bollocks about it, the Zina bash thing for example, but this message that it’s okay for these people to come out of the woodwork is pretty real.
Yep, and there were and have been real life consequences - there has been an upward trend in hate crimes which largely coincided with the surge of the so-called "alt-right" nazis, which was first publicly observed during Gamergate.
It has met some pushback, like public assaults on public faces of nazism and white supremacy like Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler, as well as the recent de-platforming of Alex Jones*, but the fact that in the last 4 years or so, these pieces of shit have been emboldened and are daring to show their faces in public is something that can not be dismissed or denied.
*which has already proven devastating to his business, as he's lost around half of is income due to bans on Facebook, Youtube and Twitter, which were the primary drivers of web traffic to his website.
The best response to fash-fucks like Jones, Molyneux, Petersen, etcetra isn't to politely engage them in debate to discuss the merits of white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny and genocide, because:
1. that lends their sick filth a legitimacy it doesn't deserve, and it lets them pretend it has any equivalence to ideals like human rights and equality
2. they never argue in good faith, ever
3. in a civil society, sacks of shit like that should be terrified to leave their caves, and wouldn't dare show their faces in public.
Anyone who parrots their stupid rhetoric shouldn't be engaged with in good faith, they should be responded to with mockery, derision and outright hostility.
The only good nazi is a dead nazi.
