I love watching people deny that there are far-right Natsees on KF. Even KF mods themselves conceded in the Telegram chat during #DropKiwiFarms that there are outright Natsees on the forum, just at a very small number relatively to the rest of the users, so they're easy to just block and ignore:
And no, I don't think most Kiwis are "englightened centrists", you can pretty much tell which way most of them lean by reading some of their contributions. They generally express bog-standard center-left/center-right opinions or talkingpoints. A lot of Kiwis are unapologetic racists, xenophobes, antisemites, misogynists, misandrists, homophobes, eugenicists, nihilists, misanthropes and other views generally associated with extremism. I don't see any reason to pearl-clutch and deny the existence of such users on KF. Anyone who spends a day on KF browsing threads will inevitably come across such views. The difference is that KF tells you to adult and just press ignore on such users. whereas other platforms ban them.
#DropKiwiFarms long predates Keffals though, the SWATting of Keffals just galvanized a campaign that Liz Fong Jones had already started back in 2017. That campaign still continues to this day without Keffals, just under a new hashtag #EndKiwiFarms which gets a lot less attention. Where do you think the continuing DDoS attacks are coming from?
And no, I don't think most Kiwis are "englightened centrists", you can pretty much tell which way most of them lean by reading some of their contributions. They generally express bog-standard center-left/center-right opinions or talkingpoints. A lot of Kiwis are unapologetic racists, xenophobes, antisemites, misogynists, misandrists, homophobes, eugenicists, nihilists, misanthropes and other views generally associated with extremism. I don't see any reason to pearl-clutch and deny the existence of such users on KF. Anyone who spends a day on KF browsing threads will inevitably come across such views. The difference is that KF tells you to adult and just press ignore on such users. whereas other platforms ban them.
#dropkiwifarms wasn't started because people were annoyed at the guys doom posting on another washington post article, it was because of the keffals thread
#DropKiwiFarms long predates Keffals though, the SWATting of Keffals just galvanized a campaign that Liz Fong Jones had already started back in 2017. That campaign still continues to this day without Keffals, just under a new hashtag #EndKiwiFarms which gets a lot less attention. Where do you think the continuing DDoS attacks are coming from?