Ok so idk if this is the most appropriate place to post this, but are the extreme views and statement we see on these platforms really just “bots” and “internet noise” are these genuinely the worst parts of humanity?
For context/elaborating on it, I kinda drifted off from lemmy to reddit due to lack of content here and holee fuck, its just horrifying, the amount of pro genocidal statements and cheers for extremism genuinely makes me feel at extreme unease, but it also makes me ask a question. I come from a conservative southasian society and whenever you bring up topics like treatment of minorities, lgbtq+ rights, feminism etc, people normally dont comment on this stuff or make a “harmless joke” out of it, but seeing reddit pages of the same grp of ppl it makes me genuinely feel that these guys hold on to genuinely insane beliefs, and are just afraid to present it to anyone in person…
Back in 2014 or so, when reddit was getting bigger but not big enough for the mainstream yet, I noticed a half dozen accounts that would just post on r/toronto, r/chicago, and other popular city subreddits.
All they did was post about crimes committed by visible minorities, and attempt to derail posts about visible minorities being the victims of crimes.
They posted like it was their jobs, but I don’t think they got paid for it. These are people who are so scared of minorities they volunteered a significant amount of their time trying to convince others to be afraid.