re: #158 Belafon

As long as you’re comparing that to history. The KKK didn’t need the internet.

True, but they also were operating in an environment where the part of society that was dominant openly agreed with their goals.

The groups I listed were, at least until recently, widely thought of as fringe crazies - your wingnut uncle who’d talk about crazy Bircher shit at Thanksgiving and everyone would just look at him and roll their eyes. Now he can find hundreds or thousands of people online who will tell him that not only is all that crazy shit he thinks TRUE, but that reality is EVEN WORSE!!!