Well, I had to quit my Aussie Rules forum after an encounter with a right-wing poster who repeatedly defended and eventually advocated anti-muslim terror.
First he started with a shit analogy that basically rephrased Mr 19 Votes's diatribe in the context of a playground tiff between a nice, welcoming boy and a mean new kid who treats him like turd.
When I called him out on his euphemistic shite, he became more direct and said that if all Muslims in Australia were now living in fear that their kids could be taken away by a psycho any day, then that could be a good thing as they might decide to be more Australian.
After I called him out again, he doubled down again : he wants every muslim terrified that the next time they put their head to the prayer mat, they'll feel an AK up their arse.
After more rants about how multiculturalism has failed because of muslim intolerance, he started banging on about Hiroshima and how mass murder is sometimes necessary to get people to relinquish their extremist views.
And all the way, other right wing posters either kept quiet or talked about lefty double standards, despite my noting that refusing to hold ALL Muslims responsible for ALL Islamic violence is not even close to supporting Islamic violence itself. No dice.
I mean, I know we all say you shouldn't live in an echo chamber, but how the fuck do you persist with such forums and not lose your shit? I struggled to sleep last night, and on several occasions my wife tried to speak to me but I was lost in this angry reverie.
It's just not worth it. Surround yourselves with good people, fuck the fascists.
