One of the goals of his bloodshed, he wrote, was to “agitate the political enemies of my people into action, to cause them to overextend their own hand and experience the eventual and inevitable backlash as a result.” He said he wanted to “incite violence, retaliation and further divide.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/world/asia/new-zealand-gu...
I mean this is just flagrantly wrong.
>what you're doing is gaslighting
How does me saying that the 4chan isn't as white-dominated as you say it is (with a hard proof, given that you can literally take a look at pictures from irl meetups from both 4chan and reddit, and then compare yourself) count as gaslighting?
>There is nothing normal about that boards pre-occupation with calling for racial extermination.
Will it make you feel better, if I told you that you can go and see those threads in many directions, including Indian-poster threads getting into extermination-tier shitfights with Paki and Israeli posters, as well as threads where Italians and Polacks call for mutual genocide? And let's not forget the asian continent shitfight threads, where there is an eternal argument between Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean posters trying to prove to each other who should've genocided whom at which point in history, with occasional oil being poured into the dumpster fire by Vietnamese and Indonesian posters.
The board isn't pre-occupied with racial extermination. It is pre-occupied with edgy content that you cannot find elsewhere. Given that knowledge, it is understandable why most of it ends up being just wild trash. But there are definitely occasional gems in the rough that can be found there that cannot be found elsewhere.
Can you give an example of a gem? I've only seen the racist trash side (that's certainly what's on the board as of right now).
Or when they had "journalists" from big publications trying to go there and interview people on the boards, they got fed so much misleading and obviously bs info on purpose before being chased away, it was definitely entertaining to observe. Especially given how obvious it was that the "journalists" in question came in there with a very specific narrative in mind already, and it all got crumbled pretty much in real time.
Not even mentioning stuff like a solution to a novel math problem (which other commenters have already mentioned), which ended up being cited and is relevant to actual ongoing research in a specific math area.[1]
Do those things count as "gems"? That's purely subjective. But that's the kind of stuff I personally appreciate seeing there.
0. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-journalist-convi...
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpermutation#Lower_bounds,...
The Peter Bright article you posted has no mention of /pol.
It wasn't supposed to, I just posted it for the context of the court case I was talking about. It would be more weird if the court decision included those, since they didn't contribute to his arrest or anything.
If you are curious, you are welcome to go to any 4chan archiver websites and search for his name to see those conversations.
>Trolling journalists doesn't sound like "gems", it sounds like a waste of time (and I'm no fan of most journalists).
What sounds like a waste of time to you might sound like good entertainment to others. If anything, I would say that the "journalist" going directly to 4chan and attempting to "interview" people there was much more of a waste of time.
There doesn't seem to be anything "deeper". Just straight up white supremacy.
[EDIT] (since I'm now throttled for some reason)
You can go on /pol right now and see it's full of white supremacy and hate. You claimed there's some deeper meaning to all of that. There's not though, it is exactly what it looks like.
You seem to be hyperfixating on one out of 3 examples I mentioned. Did you miss the part about a proof for an unsolved math problem or early allegations against someone who went on to be charged for that exact same thing years later?
Not even mentioning other boards that are hobby-specific, like /o/ (car-related stuff) or /fit/ (fitness related stuff). If you see no value in it, that's fine. But "everything i don't like has no value" is not the way to live life.
There should be a "BS Law" were someone claims to have evidence, then refuses to present it no matter how pressed.
He claimed they had a math proof, as we see from the other comments, that wasn't /pol.
He claimed they trolled journalists. Whatever.
He claimed they had something to do with convicting a sex criminal, then provided zero evidence to back that claim up.
In no way is any of this justification for the racism that is the central message of /pol.
I never said it was from /pol/, it was from another 4chan board (/sci/). And I also brought up other boards as well, so I don't know what to tell you.
You also say that my claim about Peter Bright allegations is unverified, but again, I literally was there when those conversations took place, and you are also welcome to go to any 4chan archiver website, search for that name, and you will see the results from those years.
I have no horse in this race, but the only one moving goal posts here is you.
Here's the OP:
It's not that I'm a 'snowflake' or 'I don't understand chan humor', what they're doing is actually fucked up and dangerous even if they justify it as 'trolling' or 'irony' that should be ignored.
There is nothing normal about that boards pre-occupation with calling for racial extermination. I don't give a damn if they're posting that 'ironically', there is nothing normal about that type of constant, obsessive 'joking' about mass murder behavior to that degree, and repeating those things so much can lead to people truly becoming obsessed with those ideas, then justifying and actually carrying those actions out (like the Christchurch racial terror attack).