8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service

Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by cannonedhamster on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:14PM (#20618405)

This is a terribly laid out argument. It's not kill the Germans/Japanese/Vietnamese. Hell in Vietnam we had Vietnamese allies. In Okinawa we routinely tried to stop civilians from committing suicide. There's a massive, massive difference between calling for erasing an entire people simply for existing and fighting a declared military force. No one in the US is going over to wipe out all Arabs, they are going to protect civilians and our own people under a strict set of rules of engagement meant to minimize civilian and not combatant casualties. These people are advocating violence against a people who don't even know they exist or have no defined I'll will against them. You're also conflating government protections for free speech and requirements to support said speech by civilians. No one has to provide your microphone to tell through. The mail will still deliver their racist pamphlets, they can still shout their horrors in public spaces. They don't have a right to have their hate hosted online.

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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by balls187 on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:00PM (#20618899)

Your reply is a straw man.

The original statement was building consensus that "reasonable people" agree killing {some group} is intolerant.

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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by frabbit on Monday August 05, 2019 @05:03PM (#20618934)

There's a massive, massive difference between calling for erasing an entire people simply for existing and fighting a declared military force. No one in the US is going over to wipe out all Arabs

The clash of civilizations rhetoric makes this assertion dubious to most people that are not in the USA. That coupled with the large-scale widespread bombing of much of the world since WW2 and the support of despots engaged in torture and repression makes your fine distinction a cold comfort for hundreds of thousands (we think the price was worth it) of children.

The tendencies revealed in 8chan are a reflection of core values of US civilization.

To pretend otherwise, and agonize over the origins and supposed abnormality of racist genocide in the USA is copper-bottomed duplicity.

I suppose it makes it easier to sleep at night -- _this_ particular genocide is abnormal for us nice folks.

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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by mirimir on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:25PM (#20619794)

> The tendencies revealed in 8chan are a reflection of core values of US civilization.

To some extent, yes. But then, US civilization is sadly not all that unique.

The major issue is that the US is collapsing. Gradually, over the past few decades, but steadily. And that always creates lots of angry, nihilistic young men. Eventually they'll become cannon fodder.

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