A hard look into edgy humor and how it can lead into Stochastic Terrorism

[dustyscamp]

This video examines the Alt Right Pipeline and the Pyramid of Violence that leads from implicit bias to edgy humor to violence.

CONTENT WARNINGS:
This video contains:
-Racist symbols and imagery
-Racist rallies and hate speech
(explicit slurs have been removed)
-Discussion of the Charlottesville tragedy
-Confrontations between racists and ethnic minorities/Native Americans

I hope everyone here takes this seriously and spares some time to watch the video.

[Iggo]

1. I already hate nazis. (n/t)

[dustyscamp]

2. I hate them too

but if we don't try to understand them and try to prevent people from turning into one we will never truly defeat them.

[Iggo]

3. I'm okay with the old way.

[Initech]

4. Why hasn't Youtube yanked PewDiePie's channel yet?

I would think this would be the final straw. He repeatedly promotes neo Nazi and anti-semitic content under a "wink wink nudge nudge" kind of thing and then gets name dropped by the Christchurch shooter. What's it going to take?

[ancianita]

5. Excellent look at how lulzy online styles distance and soften inhibitions gradually,

almost through stages, as I understand what's presented here.

First jokey, fun, cutesy styles reward gaming, gaming rewards guided watching as much as playing, which conditions a passive mentality and inertia against critical thinking about anything, anyone different -- a monocultural outlook -- about women, blacks, other people's thinking. It results in a digital media conditioning of jokey passivity about our feelings and social life activities. Online.

Which aids socializing in real life over these shared media exposures -- using jokey looks, doing "cool AF" stuff, dog whistles, victim posing -- which can randomly normalize "trying out" aggressive speech. Which can grow kids into a validated social behavior in a social group.

Then random contact outside their conditioned monoculture might spark confusion in the online person's alienation in public places, but his social group can validate and normalize his random venting through game-style domination or victim posing. Nothing too serious. Later, he might be randomly aggressive -- with mixed results from 'outsider' adults or authorities. Who conveniently, don't want to take them any more seriously than they take themselves. So these newbs at life easily "disavow" because they're all about the lulz.

The cycle repeats at home, more validating friends sharing their online experience. They hardly realize how refined, tiny their world is before a planet of immensely different lives. This monoculture's isolation and inept, formulaic social skills become more frequent, and so eventually internalize into 'who they are." Their bubble's language environments online, at home, and in social circles might randomly foment more toxic action that randomly might cross into criminality in the larger world.

It looks like a four-step process that recycles itself. Truth, reality and commitment to any humans' views outside one's self/group are no longer experienced.

To me, online/real world conditioned monocultures of prejudice seem mindlessly profitable for a mindless free market tech world that exists across continents.

M. Scott Peck once described evil as 95% mindless acts, and 5% intentional, planned goals. Given that outlook on evil, how do we know there exist actual agents of stochastic terrorism? Like evil beta testers? Even Trump himself -- powerful as his position is -- mindlessly refuses responsibility for his part in evil/criminal actions of those who "see" him as "messaging" them.

Hannah Arendt's concept of the banality of evil comes to mind.