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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by anigbrowl on Friday January 31, 2020 @03:46PM (#22205523)
The "toxic" people are trying to be honest about real issues

Sadly there are lots of reasonable-seeming right-leaning people whose discourse about 'real issues' sooner or later circles around to 'race realism' or 'the jewish question' or some other ideological Pandora's box. It's often later; a common rule of thumb among far-right extremists is that it takes at least 2 years to reliably indoctrinate a person online.

Here is an example of how these persuasion techniques are deployed, albeit a slightly offensive one. This particular example (spread across 3 pages) aims toward recruitment of people for the 'Qanon' conspiracy which is popular among some right-leaning people. While it's orthogonal to other far-right extremist movements, it is a useful example of a developing militant ideology.

https://centipedenation.com/library/red-pilling-a-general-gu...

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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by oneplane on Friday January 31, 2020 @03:53PM (#22205596)
It makes you wonder what cool stuff we could have done with the time and resources that are currently being put in to that. But I suppose that the people that are putting their time and resources in to that are categorising it internally as 'cool stuff' already.
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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by creato on Friday January 31, 2020 @04:48PM (#22206179)
> Sadly there are lots of reasonable-seeming right-leaning people whose discourse about 'real issues' sooner or later circles around to 'race realism' or 'the jewish question' or some other ideological Pandora's box. It's often later; a common rule of thumb among far-right extremists is that it takes at least 2 years to reliably indoctrinate a person online.

I think an equally large problem is reasonable-seeming left-leaning people who hold some opinions so spectacularly absurd in the name of ideology that it generates very fertile ground for right wing commentary to resonate.

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Re:Ask HN: How do we stop the polarization/toxicicity fillin... by watwut on Friday January 31, 2020 @05:06PM (#22206364)
Maybe the part of problem is blaming left wing for right wing actions and opinions, bit never blaming right wing for left wing opinions.

Some peoples actions are excused and excused and explained, others are not.

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