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Any proof about being far-right? Looks like the claim was only added to wiki today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kiwi_Farms&type=r...

You can literally go on the forum and read it if you need any proof.

Just did, the latest featured thread is laughing about a Republicans silly statements. Seems to have no issues criticising both the left and the right..

Oh ok then, I forgot that there aren't people who are further right-wing than the Republican party...

You said to read the forum, I did. Saw no comments about politics, threads of people laughing at both sides of the political spectrum (with the majority of threads being apolitical). So where's these 'far-right' people hiding?

You can’t just make a claim and then not provide any evidence. If it’s so obviously “far-right” (it isn’t), prove it.

The burden of proof is on the claimant (That is YOU) to give that evidence not the other way round. Telling some one to look for that evidence is not 'proof' and it is YOU that needs to provide the evidence.

If it was so easy to prove, you would have already done so in less than an hour. 20 hours is plenty of time to show this proof by now, yet there is none.

There is no shame to admit that you have no evidence and you made a baseless claim.

So there's some reason to say that it's inaccurate to classify the site as far-right. It did not start out as a far-right organization or anything. It's always been a troll farm whose purpose is to organize people who can take others down, but wasn't established as an alternative to stormfront or something.

However, their victims are nearly all under the "left wing" umbrella. And if you go and read the posts on the maniacally long threads discussing their victims (especially the ones they've successfully goaded into suicide), it's riddled with far-right hate speech. So if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it a duck?

>It's always been a troll farm whose purpose is to organize people who can take others down

What? It was originally a forum for users of a wiki about Chris Chan. It's purpose is more about documenting what exists and discussing it. It's never been about trolling others or harassing people.

It's always been about trolling and harassing. Why are you defending them?

>It's always been about trolling and harassing.

That is not the point of the site.

>Why are you defending them?

Because I've been a member of communities where outsiders inaccurately describe the community to others making it seem like something it isn't.

'Documenting' the existence of a socially maludjusted grown man so they can laugh at him and coordinate gaslight efforts definitely counts as harassment.

It's always been like this

Laughing at someone isn't harassment. Organizing gaslighting efforts happens off platform and is discouraged by the community. There is no way to control what happens off platform. Josh isn't able to mind control everyone to not do it.

Laugh at her*

Just because they misgender her doesn’t give you permission to do it.

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