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This is one of the comments there legit people who believe in this shit:
""Toxic legacy"? People, have you looked at our world with a critical eye? Have you paid attention to your cities? Our world is toxic. Don't blame 4chan or relatively innocent 4chan users/content makers. I know there was questionable content, but that's just what you get for PERPETUALLY ignoring every atrocity going on in the world while keeping the evils of capitalism's excess going full-speed incompetence.
When you critics have fixed your country and made it live up to it's written principles of "liberty and justice for all", THEN you can criticize people venting or getting off on 4chan. Until then, were not working together as a team, now, are we?"
And heres somebody responding to that:
"Fight the flu with cancer until the flu admits it's wrong." Mmk. No, the race to the bottom isn't caused by toxicity, it's caused by people responding to toxicity with worse toxicity. E.g., "the Democrats did this thing (probably), so we're going to do it even more, that'll teach them!" and so a country dies. In short, the attitude you described isn't a good defense, it's literally the disease. But it's hard to be angry at you. You're describing a destructive coping mechanism: a literal mental disorder (in the clinical, not insulting, sense), one that is now endemic.