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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by AgentME on Thursday August 09, 2018 @10:58PM (#17730375)
>For instance, consider white supremacy: if you give people a choice between social groups and make them feel welcome, they can use simple, self-serving logic to join the one that meets their needs. White supremacy doesn't help white people, rationally, it's just stupid, except for very convoluted goals.

Doesn't the fact that white supremacists groups still get members contradict your idea here that people won't join them?

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Re:Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are ... by lmm on Friday August 10, 2018 @06:25AM (#17732061)
> Doesn't the fact that white supremacists groups still get members contradict your idea here that people won't join them?

I think their point was that people join because they aren't welcome anywhere else; if there were other places where those people were welcome, maybe they wouldn't join those groups.

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