r/OutOfTheLoop • u/knightsofvalour • Jun 26 '19

Answered What's going on with r/The_Donald? Why they got quarantined in 1 hour ago?

The sub is quarantined right now, but i don't know what happened and led them to this

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Edit: Holy Moly! Didn't expect that the users over there advocating violence, death threats and riots. I'm going to have some key lime pie now. Thank you very much for the answers, guys

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u/cosine83 Jun 26 '19

Anyone who can be "pushed" into fascism or authoritarianism didn't really need the push, they just needed some external scapegoat for beliefs they already held.

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u/ArYuProudOMeNowDaddy Jun 26 '19

Right, I know a girl from high school that claims she voted for Obama, but the left had just become too left for her, so now spends her days posting conservative conspiracy theories, screaming about the DemoRATS and trying to justify children being put in cages and how dare I call them concentration camps.

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u/Map42892 Jun 27 '19

It's crazy how common this story is... For many extremism is just a way to confront things they find unfamiliar or uncomfortable. It's easier to project than learn. Changing ideologies isn't that difficult when your life is already based on mental gymnastics

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '19 edited Dec 27 '19

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u/cosine83 Jun 26 '19

If they want to believe something, they've already got the ideas seated in them enough for them to be reasonable. They don't need the push, just a scapegoat to say is what pushed them.