The sad thing is this kid is growing up on the internet and being taught this shit about "SJWs" and is going to grow up a political zealot manipulated by trolls and misinformation on reddit and then he's going to carry that as his mantra his whole life. This is the kind of radicalization people talk about in online communities. Not everyone is radicalized into violence, a lot more suffer what we see here, just the ideology aspect.

If at 13 he's defending something exclusively used as a racist symbol (approximately 0% of people are using a noose as their spray for their love of knots or the wild west justice systems) as a bastion of free thought and using shitty alt-right talking points to do it, he's probably doomed to be just a racist shithead when he gets older, and the cycle continues.

I would like to be optimistic that kids like this will grow out of it, but his raging in the comments here tells me that probably isn't likely. It's just disappointing to see this keep happening, and to see how sites keep fostering communities that create more racists. Like how hard is it to not be racist? It seems pretty fucking easy to not just hate people for no reason.

I reported this thread when it was like 15 minutes old, and mods just left it up. It breaks rules 2, 3, 8, arguably 5 and 7, and is just generally a magnet for all of those things.

And yeah, I know people are going to comment some dumb shit about "lol imagine caring this much about a 13 year old's shitpost" and other stuff about me putting too much effort into this post. Whatever. It just sucks and I want to vent about how much it sucks that we can't just stop being racist edgelords, especially when it's warping kids like this into unironic racism for the rest of their lives.