Hacker News Reader

Comment by taneq | Hacker News Reader

> There seems to be a common strategy by right wing accelerationists that involve masquerading as left wing and pushing things into absurdity.

Or does there? The truly disturbing aspect of so many things like this is that (as per Poe's Law) it's impossible to distinguish cynical mockery from earnestly-held extremism.

View on HN

4chan /pol/ does this stuff all the time. The OK as white power sign, the Free Bleeding movement as just a few off the top of my head. But then there are antifastonetoss which I'm pretty sure are actually fans of stonetoss using a loophole to avoid getting banned. These people cannot operate in the open and have found other ways to operate.

I can't tell if it fits the Ruby CoC case. I'm just keeping an open mind to the possibility.

Oh totally, I didn't mean to imply there weren't actors out there doing shady bad-faith false-flag things. There totally are. It's just that sometimes (often?) what they post is indistinguishable from the real thing.

Best case to make a point on the internet is to argue the opposite and doing that very badly.

but white supremacists including those on 4chan /pol/ have used OK as an actual racist sign. That may not be the dominant meaning of the symbol but it is one that exists.

And we let white supremacists hijack our language?

Nazis basically took over the Swastika, a symbol with thousands of years of use, in at least half of the world.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591

I'm not saying we should or that random neo-nazis have that same power to take over it but we should acknowledge that some uses of the symbol are racist

I was wondering if some of the weirdness is machine translation from Japanese. Anyone know?

We don't know the nationality of this hmdne guy, possibly Arabic.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com