I've met them all way too many times, offline as well. And they bullshit enough that too many people believe it.
Remember "don't feed the trolls" and "greater internet fuckwad theory" and how both were used to lubricate the slippy-slides into fascist ideology back before /pol/ decided it no longer needed the "ironic" mask for fascism? I sure do. :doomer:
Jesus wept, it's been years since I've heard that phrase. Never even connected to the possibility that it could be used to excuse to deluge of Nazi internet culture, but it seems obvious in hindsight.
Almost every time I had it barked at me in years past it was because I called out some bigotry. "Surely that fine gentleman is an upstanding citizen IRL and this is just the internet where he totally just plays a nazi for giggles! Why u mad? Kek" :so-true:
I was a Cassandra back then and called it out early but it didn't do any good. :doomer:
I've met them all way too many times, offline as well. And they bullshit enough that too many people believe it.
Remember "don't feed the trolls" and "greater internet fuckwad theory" and how both were used to lubricate the slippy-slides into fascist ideology back before /pol/ decided it no longer needed the "ironic" mask for fascism? I sure do. :doomer:
Jesus wept, it's been years since I've heard that phrase. Never even connected to the possibility that it could be used to excuse to deluge of Nazi internet culture, but it seems obvious in hindsight.
Almost every time I had it barked at me in years past it was because I called out some bigotry. "Surely that fine gentleman is an upstanding citizen IRL and this is just the internet where he totally just plays a nazi for giggles! Why u mad? Kek" :so-true:
I was a Cassandra back then and called it out early but it didn't do any good. :doomer:
This does have root in the long-standing liberal canard of "everyone is secretly a little racist against something". Liberal scratching and all that.