Believe it or not, it wasn't always that unanimously and weirdly white supremacist. It was just the free speech site, and there were pretty normal people there. This was true even after reddit dumped all their worst, most hateful people off there. It was always like everybody hated everybody else, but then they just accepted being hated by each other because they all at least had a love of free speech in common. There were people of every political persuasion. Left wingers, libertarians... Other races too. As long as you didn't get offended easily, you fit right in!

As a Voat user since 2014, THIS THIS THIS. I don't mind Freddy Fundie posting on Voat or Kiwi Farms. What bugs the shit out of me is Freddy Fundie being the universal opinion on Voat instead of having plenty of people who disagree with him.

Once upon a time in the mythical past Voat users on non-TRP/non-ideological subs weren't arguing that abortion is too easy and women should be jobless stay-at-home moms because women working outside the home is caused by feminism urging "careers" and globalists wanting more worker units.

For another example that really sticks in my craw, there was a time when FatPeopleHate had lots of trans users like SkelAngel and ShitLittlePrince, it wasn't the unanimous view that "trannies need to get their delusions fixed by a shrink instead of getting hormones." Now the userbase is dogmatic enough that all the medical science you present is handwaved away because it disagrees with the "trannies are delusional" dogma.

The exact same thing happened on Kiwi Farms. 2015 and 2016 Kiwi Farms threads distinguished between normal trans people and transtrender lolcows. 2017 and 2018 Kiwi Farms threads act like Leelah Alcorn's parents did the right thing and Paul McHugh is a genius superscientist--that it's bad for people to get hormones so they don't look like hons. I don't know what happened to make Kiwi Farms turn from being atheists like Marsmar who laughed at Sonichu invoking GodBearJesus and telling kids to "stay straight" to being "the media is controlled by satan" Bible-thumpers who get upvoted out the wazoo for quoting the New Testament verse against crossdressing, but I hate the change. As someone who grew up evangelical, seeing that happen on Voat and Kiwi Farms is like being Yuri Bezmenov or Victor Kravchenko and seeing Americans around you who've never had to actually live under the shit cheer for communism. The whole reason I've been posting Voat, Kiwi Farms and CringeAnarchy comments to FSTDT.com isn't because I'm offended and want it censored. It's because it's cathartic to get contact with non-fundies who go "yeah, that's batshit crazy" instead of me being the lone non-fundie in a thread.

I mean, /r/yiff had a Voat spinoff. When I posted a "free speech for everyone, including unpopular speech" quote several years ago when Voat was in alpha stage, it was upvoted out the wazoo. I do the same thing now, and everyone on /v/Libertarian is a Hoppean "remove anti-libertarian/anti-white speech" type if they're libertarian at all.

The truth is nobody cared that we had a /v/niggers or whatever other offensive sub. It was fine, because for the most part every group stuck to their subs.

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Also, the nonwhite users on FatPeopleHate were our best posters.