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I mean. Ish? I guess when I hear about a hate group, I expect them to do that kind of stuff. Kind of comes with the territory.

I was always more interested in how the recruits get to that point, because I've met a lot of people over the years, and the number of shitty people in this world is surprisingly small. Very few people are true pieces of shit. I wouldn't expect any significant number of people to join this type of group naturally...so why do they?

Personally, I've been exploring this topic pretty extensively since gamergate, which laid out a pretty clear blueprint of preying on lonely young men and offering them community and social belonging, while slowly converting them into racist shitheads. Then send them out into the world like those door to door Jesus salesmen, have the world call them racist shitheads, and lovebomb them into staying loyal.

That seems like a much more interesting analysis, compared to such, uh, 'shocking' revelations like "this hate group makes recruits say slurs".

Heck, even some cursory analysis of the reasons behind the rituals would be nice. It's like how the pride boys initiation involves naming breakfast cereals while being beaten. On the surface, that's just kind of ridiculous, but there's psychological reasoning behind it. To me, the why is much more interesting than the how, and the why shows you how to solve the problem. The how is just...meh.