/pol/ is whatever the people going there are into at the time

but in reality they just tolerate everything because it's all a cesspool lmfao

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All of that may be true, but if we go there right now, is a 50-50 mix of random stuff and hateful shit-posting

gore, bestiality, borderline pedophilia, you name it
whether it be edgy memes or actually fucked up people you will find it there

i only go on 4chan if i'm in a good mood and have to call a support hotline 😄

in terms of /pol/'s values on average it's definitely closer to the alt-right than progressive left (at least in the past year)

but 90% of it is reactive

and the progressive left just happens to be putting out the most garbage in volume

so it's normal to see

reddit is more constructive assuming you can find moderators that allow politics and are mostly neutral when things get heated

IGD is pretty bad. I think it was them who had articles about how to sabotage train tracks and lots of pro antifa stuff.

Yeah the request to verify came from a lefty prof of mine. Not surprising

https://archive.fo/6E74K

Those kinds of people shouldn’t be teachers.

I think she's a pretty fair teacher on her topics. She's not pro-antifa or anything and she covers he topics fairly well. She's far from apolitical but i don't think there is anything wrong with that. College is about encountering people who disagree with you

(I don't mean to sound defensive of her or offended, I'm not)

I don’t know your teacher so I’ll take your word for it but I’m really wary of anyone who takes the far left seriously.

Are you wary of anyone who takes the far-right seriously?

Don't you think its important to be presented with a diversity of opinions, some of them absurd but seriously defended when in college?

I’m wary of both. I don’t think you should shut down extreme views but also be careful to not cross the line of indoctrination.

extreme views on either side have issues..

Idk, there are some 'extreme' views that I like. (I'm partial to minarchism).

extremeism is generally bad, "only sith deal in absolutes"

I think there are plenty of far-right and left views that are worth being exposed to and engaging with.

extreme views are generally centrist views, just to the extreme...

@CreativeRealms i take the far left seriously

our federal government literally shut down and far left progressives are taking over major institutions all over the world at an alarming rate

so like

there are clearly risks

I take them seriously in that way yes. As in they are a serious danger.

i'm not a reactionary in the sense that join a group simply to oppose another party's views

because often it's mis-applied like universitites and their excessive nitpicking of themself despite not having the problems they describe like racism against minorities and rape

Sexual violence on campus is definitely a real problem.

compared to what

Compared to sexual violence off campus

citation?

Err this is the awkward part, I actually useds to generate the statistics at my campus.

everything i've seen shows that physical violence is lower on campus along with pretty much every crime

But i can't present them or discuss them intimately because of legal stuff

I can't speak to that.

All i can say with relative certainty, is that on my campus (and i've heard this is normal) the number of reported sexual incidents on surveys is much higher than normal. it depends on a lot of things of course, how do you define sexual violence/rape, what counts as on campus and so on