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Re:White Supremacists Built a Website to Doxx Interracial Co... by happytoexplain on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:11PM (#23171258)
>These are like school children that carve swastikas on their desk just because they know they shouldn't.

This analogy works well for young people posting on 4chan, but if that same person creates a web platform to organize people to put swastikas on buildings, that person is almost certainly not doing this just because they know they shouldn't.

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Re:White Supremacists Built a Website to Doxx Interracial Co... by klyrs on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:30PM (#23172061)
> This analogy works well for young people posting on 4chan

Nevermind Dylan Roof, the Christchurch massacre, etc. To pass this off as harmless fun is really missing the point. Some of these kids take it very seriously and act on it with tragic consequences.

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