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I Spent Two Weeks Tracking A Secret Teen White Supremacist Messaging Group
Inside the lightning-fast, wildly absurd, occasionally terrifying world of app-based teenage white supremacy.
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Hey! Would you crosspost this to /r/longform? This was a really interesting read.
Sure thing!
Thank you!
I really don't know how to feel about this article. It made me feel like I was listening in on some high security, secret information when in reality it was probably a bunch of teens spouting off things their parents have said.
A product of the tech age, I'd say. The problem is that I think this kinda thinking is brushed aside as being "dumb kid speak" a little too quickly, even by the writer himself. It's the same problem I had with the argument that "at least /r/fatpeoplehate stays in its own area. If it got banned, it would spread everywhere." On the same side of that coin, leaving /r/fatpeoplehate - or, in this case, a white supremacy group run by teens - open and free from criticism, lets these kinds of ideas fester and proliferate. Naw'mean?
I completely agree. And besides, FPH wasn't exactly contained to their own sub before the ban. They affected matters on many different places on the site.