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0 pointsjmyeet1y ago0 comments

This is /pol/ focused, yes, but the other boards aren't separate worlds. It's all part of what many call the "alt-right pipeline" and it's subtle and insidious.

For example, many (particularly women) have consumed Candace Owens's content about the Blake Lively / Justin Baldoni saga, just like many followed certain creators with the Amber Heard trial. Both of thse fall squarely on the alt-right pipeline.

So you may start folloing 9gag. Particularly if you're young, you may enjoy being "edgy" but a bunch of that is actually normalizing right-wing views. Even seeking validation on /b/ fits this.

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arandomusername1y ago

How is this different from, for example, reddit? You may start following reddit, niche subreddits, but in reality it's normalizing left-wing views

beeflet1y ago

>Candace Owens's content about the Blake Lively / Justin Baldoni saga, just like many followed certain creators with the Amber Heard trial.

No offense, but this just sounds like gossip

attemptone1y ago

How "subtle and insidious" is it really? I'd say it is shifting the blame of personal responsability to a website. Me and some of my friends use(d) 4chan and we never fell into the pipeline. To the contrary there is a strong left-wing camarederie. And I'd wager that we recognize subtle right-wing views more easily. One doesn't learn about these views by looking at a twitter screenshot but by engaging them.

We should stop treating right-wing ideology as a mind-parasite. And if we do it anyways, we should accept that some people want to get "infected".

bobsmooth1y ago

So insidious you could be alt-right without even knowing!

busterarm1y ago

Sorry, but you don't find any of that shit in /k/ or /m/ or a dozen of the other most popular boards on the site.

You literally are making shit up.

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