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> It's just reddit for people who hate reddit.

That's true on a technical level only. But culture matters.

Attitudes like yours were why 4chan was such a surprise to the rest of us. The culture that we all thought was just "ironic" and "edgy" with its casual racism turned out to be... kinda actually racist when right wingers decided to weaponize xenophobia and bigotry. The groupthink of a bunch of almost-exclusively-male incels turned out to be hiding genuine misogyny once they had an enemy to point themselves at in gamergate.

Culture matters. Being an "open website" just describes how it happens, not why.



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