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Extremist content on Reddit, Discord worrying trend for young adults in India

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Re: Extremist content on Reddit, Discord worrying trend for young adults in India

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Impact is probably a big factor: sectarian, religious, or ethnic violence on India's scale has the potential to displace or harm tens of millions of people.

Quack medicine (which you'll find in just about every country) tends to have a much smaller harm radius.

Re: Extremist content on Reddit, Discord worrying trend for young adults in India

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Pretty sure the government tried paying people to install toilets in their homes but most refused and all continue to go in the streets as well - the occasional concerned citizen has even been assaulted for requesting that people not do it.

Source? The statistics disagree:

https://img.etimg.com/photo/msid-65207066,quality-100/graph....

Re: Extremist content on Reddit, Discord worrying trend for young adults in India

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So allow open lies and open hate?

Of course! Just a few years ago people called that "free speech". Now the enemies of free speech are trying to win the terminology war by convincing people that stopping "hate" and "lies" is more important than protecting the concept of open and free exchange of ideas.

Re: Extremist content on Reddit, Discord worrying trend for young adults in India

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So allow open lies and open hate?

Of course! Just a few years ago people called that "free speech". Now the enemies of free speech are trying to win the terminology war by convincing people that stopping "hate" and "lies" is more important than protecting the concept of open and free exchange of ideas.

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Re: Extremist content on Reddit, Discord worrying trend for young adults in India

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I'd like to understand why so many young people find extremist content so persuasive and engaging. I can't stand it, and I instantly close any website that allows for extreme content.

Nobody in an extremist group thinks that they are an extremist. To them, it is the obvious rational and right mindset.

You may be in groups (or hold opinions) that others out there consider extremist, but to you feel very natural in the circles you associate with.

Re: Extremist content on Reddit, Discord worrying trend for young adults in India

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I think the far more worrying trend is trying to silence anyone with different political ideologies. Like their handpicked example of a user discussing "'destroý' Islam". Note, they added the quotes around destroy. But the actual content is reasonably thoughtful discussion of appointed supreme court judges and only claims "to end radical islam".

It’s interesting because “destroy whiteness” was and is a popular talking point in certain circles or the left. Obviously they don’t literally mean destroy white people but as always the benefit of the doubt is extended to them but “destroy Islam” immediately is interpreted as inherently violent or evil.

Take that, and apply it to "destroy jewishness"

Let's see where you end up.

Re: Extremist content on Reddit, Discord worrying trend for young adults in India

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So allow open lies and open hate?

As much as I don’t like it, I think this is the best idea. This way ideas can be discussed and debated and light can be shed in areas otherwise hidden.

This naively ignores the empirical fact that (a) many people seem to be immune to light, and (b) most people debating believe light to be what's shining out of their debate-hole (rather than an emergent property arising from the debate).
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