racist scientists and assholes citing "reason" as an excuse for bigotry weren't created by the internet.
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James Watson was a racist piece of shit before the internet became a thing. Eugenics existed.
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White people of all walks of life find racism congenial. That long predates the internet.
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idk. people treat the internet like it's some magic generator of hate and unhappiness.
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The internet is just people talking to each other. That's it. The mode of communication changes some things
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but not that much. Nothing fundamental is different. People managed to commit genocides before the internet, you know?
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pretty sure allowing six sigma outliers to find each other and turn each other into twelve sigma outliers means more than it's credited for
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I don't think it works like that. I don't think people generate sigma outliers in that way.
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Replying to @chaosprime @nberlat
99% of the people in those circles would've had a couple nasty, bitter ideas and grown out of them
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but instead they were captured and groomed by a self-reinforcing community and now they have thousands of nasty, bitter ideas
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Replying to @chaosprime @nberlat
and at a guess less than half will grow out of the major portion of them and the toll in misery and death will be cataclysmic
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