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Re:How Basecamp Blew Up by BurningFrog on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:22PM (#27045452)
> "The argument is simply that the behavior everyone claims to decry (e.g. racial violence) starts somewhere, far below violence. "Funny names" turn into off-color jokes. Off-color jokes turn into jokes with a darker edge. Then it turns into..."

If this is such a common path, why have I never heard of it happening?

How common is this chain of events? What are some documented cases?

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Re:How Basecamp Blew Up by benjohnson on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:04AM (#27046054)
Thankfully it doesn't happen at all or we have a genocide for every comedian.
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Re:How Basecamp Blew Up by mpyne on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:02PM (#27058316)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Europe
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