• DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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    4 hours ago

    Some cases is an understatement. Ever since The_Donald and Kekistan, Pepe has become a hate symbol due to the wide adoption by far right trolls. Pepe might’ve never meant to be that, but neither was the Swastika or the roman salute, or other symbols that the Nazis adopted for themselves. The more pressing issue is that you should really not give people on Steam the benefit of the doubt of arguing in good faith. The whole gamergate movement is alive and well there.

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      As I said before I reject your premise about pepe and it’s use. And the swatsticka is a false equivalence.

      I have seen zero substantiation of this overly broad statement except for some ADL fundametalists making claims and the alt-right whacos making claims. I consider both camps equally fringe.

      Also keep telling all these people they are racist loonatics… at some point they might start to believe you are make it a self fulfilling prophecy. The alt right does the same… we co-opt the meme and tell people they are one of us… because we meme the same we must be the same… or something…

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        I have seen zero substantiation of this overly broad statement except for some ADL fundametalists making claims and the alt-right whacos making claims.

        I don’t care for American institutions, I simply speak out of personal experience on that matter of what I experienced and seen firsthand in many places.

        Also keep telling all these people they are racist loonatics… at some point they might start to believe you are make it a self fulfilling prophecy.

        Ah, yes. They’re only racist because I called them racist. That’s the typical bullshit excuse racists use, claiming that the other side pushed them to become racist.

        Here we see that you are also arguing in bad faith, and not just out of ignorance.