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[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Nope. The radicalization is a global phenomenon that started in 2016, coinciding perfectly with the rise of the online manosphere and red-pill movement.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works -4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

It goes much more than that. It started as the rise of atheism, where impressionable young boys, wanting to be rebels discovered the dopamine rush of dunking on religious wackjobs like the Westboro Baptist Church. Not blaming atheism, just pointing out it started here.

It then extended further to video games and gamergate. Then they started getting political, which naturally led them down to 2016 and current times.

The point remains that the majority of them blamed wokeness

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Sure, atheism was a big online movement in the 2010 era, but it was co-opted in 2015 by the “intellectual dark web,” from Sam Harris to Joe Rogan and the Weinstein fuckheads. That’s when things really started to get bad.

The atheist movement was already fizzling out after the death of Hitchens a few years earlier, and was then metastasizing into something ugly (as you said, video games, anti woke bullshit), until it was eventually subsumed by reactionaries like Jordan Peterson, who burst onto the scene with his crypto-Christian nonsense. Joe Rogan started to get more and more conspiretarded, and the rest is history.

Anyway, the YouTube alt-right pipeline is a well researched and documented phenomenon and when I have to spend all day arguing with 15 year olds about why Andrew Tate sucks, please take my word for it, they need to be kept off of social media. They’re too stupid and vulnerable.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can't educate them or parent your own child? I don't want to have my ID forced online just to engage in social media.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 1 points 3 days ago

Apparently not. Right wing radicalization has all but won worldwide. It’s clear we can’t have nice things. Maybe we can save the smaller platforms? I’m open to other ideas, personally.

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