Really liked the comparison to frats, it's always seemed so insane to me that fraternities are allowed to exist. Benefits of going to a frat-free school, I guess. It's really interesting to trace the histories of white/male supremacist movements in and around these niche hobby spaces. It's kind of a perfect pressure cooker- here's a bunch of dudes who have been promised power and/or pussy as a birthright, who despite these promises have been rejected socially for various reasons, and now they're all together in the same place, feeling like they've had something stolen from them... you see it in the modern counterparts to wargaming groups, too (obviously). It would be interesting to trace the relationships between the social-outcast 'nerd' male supremacist groups and the more traditional frat-type male supremacists, but that's a whole other post. Also +1 to the 'its just games' thing, that rhetoric makes it very easy for the public to overlook where these kinds of supremacist movements are growing & organizing, since they tend to do so in the fringes at first.
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Date: 2026-03-18 03:31 am (UTC)Also +1 to the 'its just games' thing, that rhetoric makes it very easy for the public to overlook where these kinds of supremacist movements are growing & organizing, since they tend to do so in the fringes at first.