Yeah, there’s a lot of revisionist history ITT, if I had to guess, it’s because people don’t want to admit/accept that it was already an extremist site by the time they were frequenting it.
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Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 month agoWhat the fuck are you talking about? Stormfront came in in 2012 and it’s been nazis all the way down since
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Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s more that they colonized than normalized, meaning they kept shitting up the place until nearly everyone not racist left in disgust
Then they looked around and saw mostly racist posts and concluded that it was ‘normal’ and then Steve Bannon directed all their ambient anger towards Gamergate and the rest is history, disgusting bigoted history.