http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1552616959/118#118While I acknowledge the author is probably certifiable, this post is indistinguishable from the 8chan discussions that are going on right now - 8chan of course being the forum on which Brentan Tarrant announced his planned attack and where he was roundly encouraged and praised for doing so.
This post of course is not an isolated case. Something for us all to reflect on is that until now, such posts and posters have largely been dismissed as the rantings of imbeciles - even treating them with some amusement. I don't think anyone really ever took them seriously. And yet now some such 'imbecile' who no doubt was dismissed and ridiculed as some here have been - has actually gone out and killed a whole bunch of people. How responsible are the people who, through their silence or tacit approval, foster and nurture this sort of atmosphere of hate speech?
Lets be brutally honest here - too long this site has been a haven for Islamophobia and hate speech. Usually its just garden variety disgruntled white conservative venting against immigration and progressives, and it mostly doesn't go beyond "acceptable" mainstream right discourse. But then you get the really disturbing stuff, like what I linked above (and lets be clear - this is *NOT* isolated), sprinkled in occassionally but fairly regularly. And when it happens, somehow it doesn't get roundly condemned and rejected universally by all. The disgruntled whites sidestep them and instead focus on trolling the progressives, while the progressives generally just laugh and ridicule the "lunatic" poster. Either way, usually no one from either side calls it out for what it is - deeply dangerous. I sincerely hope now that the next time we see violence-instigating hate speech like the post I linked - it could conceivably be a) someone who is literally on his way to gun down real people or b) motivating and inspiring someone else to do so.
Oh, and way to go FD, "acknowledging" the problem here by reference to someone who last posted here over 6 years ago.