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Although I think you're right, that is definitely not what's happening on Stormfront. There's nobody "pushing back", just racist people talking together.


> There's nobody "pushing back", just racist people talking together.

Not quite, "... Two weeks ago, the boneheads thought they’d got their man. For a decade, the pseudonym “Andy Fleming” has been troubling Australia’s far right and neo-Nazis – “boneheads” to their opponents – by writing about them. His blog Slack Bastard carries the work of a man who has acquired enormous amounts of intelligence, so much so that it rivals police knowledge. ..." [0]

[0] 'Hunting Australia’s neo-Nazis' Martin McKenzie-Murray ~ http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/society/2014/04/05/h...


Yeah, I agree with this. On the internet it's so easy to get sucked into an echo chamber and completely cloister oneself in some belief system or another. Then every other perspective is the foolish mainstream media who are only there to feed the sheeple or some agenda of the enemy. I think these echo chambers breed/cater to a sort of messianic paranoia.


"On the internet it's so easy to get sucked into an echo chamber and completely cloister oneself in some belief system or another."

This being posted on Hacker News is pretty breathtaking :-)


I bet there's a handful of good trolls on the site too.




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