Comment by darpa_escapee
9 years ago
It's a mixture of teenagers trying out shock humor, people trying to be ironic, people who don't identify as Nazis but certainly identify with many of their ideals and straight up Nazis. There's a lot of abyss-gazing that pushes people over the edge into extremism.
Exactly. People who are subjected to that imagery and messaging, even if "ironically" risk internalizing it over time.