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No, you really can't proclaim what you want with words.

How would you react if someone said they were going to kill you, or your friend? Not very well, I'd hope.

So why, then, would you give it a pass if someone said they were going to kill an entire group of people, based on their race, gender, sexuality, religion, etc.?

And make no mistake, for far, far, far too many of these 4Chan types, that is the end goal. To murder entire categories of human being.

I don't know if some 14-year-old internet edgelord behind a keyboard really hates me; that doesn't matter, but it doesn't change what they said.

And frequently enough, words like that are simply a prelude to actions in the real world. Plenty of mass shooters were radicalized on Chan boards.

And how those Chan boards react to such violence is just as telling; instead of being disgusted, many rally around it and defend the violence.

How many people are radicalized towards real-world violence out of these? Too many, I can tell you that. And the ones who don't go so far as enacting violence will often instead join political hate groups, with the goal of using the state apparatus to enact violence on a far wider scale than they ever could acting by themselves.

How many would have done it anyway? Not that many, from what I've seen; the reach and impunity that comes with the internet means it has never been easier for hate groups to find disgruntled, insecure young people and radicalize them to the cause. And placed in a different environment, most if not all could have gone down a different path.

Make no mistake, bigotry is learned behavior, either passed down through generations, or through the concentrated efforts of hate groups.

Whatever progress humanity has made can be rolled back with surprising ease, and the types who frequent Chan boards are among those trying to make that happen. In fact, we're currently seeing rollbacks to healthcare, food abundance, and human rights happening in countries that were once considered frontrunners for progress.

I base those statements on the fact that dozens of mass shootings occur in the United States every year that were directly linked to the supremacist ideologies common to Chan boards.

And there was a significant uptick in such violent incidents right around the time hate groups began moving to the internet.

Backwards slides usually lead to prosperous times and leaps forwards, like the period after WW2. And most forms of progress can't be rolled back without some massive shift to the whole planet. You would need something like the plague, Dark Ages, or the Crusades. One country may become more anti-science, but the others will keep going. Rollbacks to healthcare are a societal shift and are not the same as rollbacks to the progress of medical science. Even with a current leaning towards more archaic views, things are still better for every marginalized group now than they were when when I was a kid, and that's just from one modern time to a slightly more modern time.

It's hundreds of mass shootings, not dozens, but America is not the world. And as horrible as the phenomenon is, it still pales in comparsion to the horrors of the past. Imagine living in America's Wild West period, or before the Columbian Exchange made different foods more accessible throughout the world. It's not even comparable. This is humanity's most comfortable hour.

So bad images on the internet = probable future murderer isn't insane logic? This reminds me of the tired arguments about violent games and movies leading to real life violence. I've seen a ton of horrible images and videos yet here I am, not a murderer. I'm so obnoxiously moral that people get annoyed at me here for being excessively ethical in regards to something as meaningless as this game. I consider ethics in everything I do. The internet has yet to change me. And I didn't say they were fine, I said they were ubiquitous.

And ignoring who? Who are you shaking your fist at? It was some ridiculous ragebait in a game forum and you transformed it into a matter of mass murder. Take things in context. It was gross but not apocalyptic. And don't worry, the hate agendas do include me, I just don't live in a hyperbolic woebegone fantasy where I think everything is the end of the world while simultaneously existing in humanity's easiest and most progressive time period.

Even if it's "just a few boards", that site is a hellhole. Wouldn't exactly call it tame. That website alone is responsible for spawning a bunch of extremist movements.

The /lgbt/ board existing doesn't mean the website is remotely tolerant either, that board is full of self-hating brainrot. Not the kind of place you want to be.