Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v...
by dfgjnirf on Thursday September 30, 2021 @08:56PM
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4chan /pol/ does this stuff all the time. The OK as white power sign, the Free Bleeding movement as just a few off the top of my head. But then there are antifastonetoss which I'm pretty sure are actually fans of stonetoss using a loophole to avoid getting banned. These people cannot operate in the open and have found other ways to operate.
I can't tell if it fits the Ruby CoC case. I'm just keeping an open mind to the possibility.
Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v...
by taneq on Friday October 01, 2021 @01:38AM
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Oh totally, I didn't mean to imply there weren't actors out there doing shady bad-faith false-flag things. There totally are. It's just that sometimes (often?) what they post is indistinguishable from the real thing.
Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v...
by raxxorrax on Friday October 01, 2021 @09:21AM
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Best case to make a point on the internet is to argue the opposite and doing that very badly.
Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v...
by rat87 on Friday October 01, 2021 @05:52AM
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but white supremacists including those on 4chan /pol/ have used OK as an actual racist sign. That may not be the dominant meaning of the symbol but it is one that exists.
Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v...
by mpweiher on Friday October 01, 2021 @07:52AM
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And we let white supremacists hijack our language?
Re:Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing v...
by rat87 on Saturday October 02, 2021 @06:32AM
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Nazis basically took over the Swastika, a symbol with thousands of years of use, in at least half of the world.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591
I'm not saying we should or that random neo-nazis have that same power to take over it but we should acknowledge that some uses of the symbol are racist
Or does there? The truly disturbing aspect of so many things like this is that (as per Poe's Law) it's impossible to distinguish cynical mockery from earnestly-held extremism.