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Originally Posted by chezlaw
Just to be clear. My position remains identical whether it's called white nationalism or white supremacy. It's equally ridiculous to claim 2+2 is a white nationalist site or a white supremacist site. I'd want nothing to do with it if was and I'd think it should be shut down.
Augie’s forum is not comparable to a site like Stormfront or The Daily Stormer, but it encourages sanitized discussion and dissemination of that same sort of vile content, exposing people to these ideas and encouraging them to adopt these beliefs while almost instantly deleting dissenting voices. It also has the potential to act as a stepping stone to actual hate sites and extreme-right radicalization through the various opinions, links and videos that will inevitably get posted.
At a time when domestic extremists killed at least 50 people in the U.S. last year and every one of the perpetrators had ties to at least one right-wing extremist movement; when, from 2009 through 2018, right-wing extremists accounted for 73 percent of such killings (compared with 23 percent for Islamists and 3 percent for left-wing extremists); and on the heels of the massacre in NZ perpetrated by a right-wing extremist fuelled by internet hate, it is very disappointing that 2p2 is opening a forum whose mod holds the types of beliefs that have stoked the rise in right-wing extremism.