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.
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.