Re:Reddit's user uprising against China because Tencent will...
by kibwen on Saturday February 09, 2019 @12:06PM
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It's a sign of how rightward the Overton window has shifted that people could think that you have to be full-blown Stormfront before you leave the realm of "really tame". Against my own better interest I spend a significant amount of my day surfing reddit, and I claim that the current trend of right-sympathetic talking points (e.g. anti-immigrant and anti-feminist sentiment) on the front page is seeing a steady and significant rise in 2019 after falling off heavily in 2017 and remaining relatively flat in 2018. Here's a comment thread that reached the front page yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/comments/aogcjg/opini... . You don't need a dedicated /r/nazi when it's far more effective from a propagandist standpoint to diffuse through the site to ostensibly "neutral" subreddits to shift discourse in a given direction.
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