> IQ is a pseudoscience

This is how people trying to oppose the alt right shoot themselves in the foot. Alt right intellectuals and propagandists immediately capitalize on this kind of nonsense. (The fact that the author identifies as a communist before denying the strongest predictor in psychology is somewhat telling as well and acts as free fuel.)

This article is pretty bad and it's kind of annoying that it (somehow) reached the top of HN. But I'll bite.

1) IQ is not a pseudoscience. Admittedly, IQ is a pretty shitty test for intelligence (as it's highly culturally-biased), but calling it pseudoscience is just dumb and shows an inherent misunderstanding of what it's supposed to do. Yeah, white supremacists are idiots and use it to justify racism, but that's a different point than what the author is making.

2) Author criticizes Trump's sharing of the "black on black" statistics arguing that it's fabricated. However, some cursory research shows that it is, in fact, not as fabricated as one might believe: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

According to the above, 90% of African American homicides were perpetrated by African Americans. This can be compared with white homicides which were perpetrated by 83% whites. Obviously, the numbers are highly skewed in the infographic shared by POTUS, but to bury your head in the sand and pretend this isn't a problem in black communities is unfair and does a great social disservice.

3) It doesn't take some kind of genius to "spot the signs" of Neo-Nazism. Swastikas are kind of a tell-tale sign.

4) "Deo is a union Millwright and a 12 year member of the Furry Fandom who spent 6 months infiltrating multiple Alt-Right and neo-Nazi online groups observing and recording how they recruited, organized, and operated." -- laughable. "Infiltrating" = joining a few discord servers and posting on 4chan. Got it.

Completely worthless article devoid of any actual real social commentary, potential solutions, or plans of attack. Medium has been turning into a soapbox lately.

I don't think I've ever read anyone babbling on about white people being superior because they invented technology, that's a a new one for me honestly.

The article was pretty rambly and I have to admit I just skipped a bunch of it. My takeaway was he pretended to be a furry nazi for a while and discovered a bunch of idiots believing in idiotic shit then had to write a bunch of idiotic shit about his 'traumatic' experience listening to idiotic shit.

Furry nazis are pretty fucking hilarious though. I wonder if they realize real nazis would have executed them for their sexual attraction to cartoon animals?

I think there should be space for all kinds of discussion, even those I don’t agree with, but in this case what worried me the most was the authors claim that once a person enters a community to discuss whatever white nationalist subjects, they are told or manipulated into believing they cannot leave, or they are made to watch propaganda videos in order to stay in the group. That crosses the line from communication of ideas to coercion and cult behavior. I don’t know why people don’t see that they’re being treated in this manipulative way, though. Even at my most lonely, I was highly suspicious and dodgy whenever any similar tactic was used on me; I preferred to be lonely.

tl;dr: furry sjws are mad at furry neo-nazis on internets

The internet was built by white people. If you hate white people, then get off the internet. You're supporting something built by people you hate.

The entire premise of these articles is "I hate the people who built something, so I'm going to use it to hurt the people I hate".

This is the behavior of infants.

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It's incredibly aggravating how aggressively Nazis are attempting to corrupt internet culture to espouse their hateful ideals. The original mindset that developed on the internet was about how nobody's identity IRL mattered, and what you said/did was what proved your worth. Now, a bunch of basement-dwelling Nazis are trying to turn that meritocracy into their own whites-only club? Fuck that, that's not what internet culture is about.

I strongly believe that anyone who cares about the internet and its culture of free ideas will recognize it as a place where people can be judged based on their skills and the quality of their ideas rather than their race or gender, and will harshly judge anyone who attempts to exclude others based purely on such superficial metrics.