@sun@hfaust I'm referring to the last time they sounded the alarms and deceptively went with "RIGHT WING TERRORISM UP 200%!!!!" when it went from double digit... to staying double digit
They counted the pulse shooting, which the shooter had islamic reasons to do it, and other weird stuff like that las vegas shooting that we knew nothing about for forever. The former which heavily inflated the numbers too. The whole thing was heavily dishonest back then too
@coolboymew@hfaust I meant that any time a jewish NGO inflates numbers about hate crimes or something, someone is going to mention holocaust numbers so why do they bring that on
@ColdOnesLite@coolboymew@hfaust the SPLC considers a PO Box that sends out racist pamphlets to be a dot on a map with the same weight as a klan meeting hall, and uses that to inflate their numbers for fundraising
@pingviini@coolboymew@hfaust their logic is so faulty and deliberately deceptive. Here's an example using the same rules as Pepe, using their own list of hate symbols, but that they didn't include because it would demonstrate how silly they are:
@pingviini@coolboymew@hfaust so just to be clear, they definitely just summed up every pepe game etc regardless of usage to inflate their "bad" numbers, and their hate symbol list includes every symbol under the sun that has ever been used in a racist way including pepe, so they had to take great care about _how exactly_ they lied in their report to make things look as bad as possible while not drawing attention to how stupid and contradictory their own metrics are for these things, or they would get the opposite result
@sun@hfaust@pingviini Pepe was totally added in their database because it was convenient and so they could be alarmist about it, very little else
And it "paid off" because they can heavily inflate the numbers here. If they got rid of Pepe it would look a lot less impressive as Steam what? 3 digit millions users and so much games?
1. Make a list of the same insane White Nationalists (blogs) that the FBI uses to justify its budgets. 2. Come out with some report about how HATE IN AMERICA is rising or getting more violent or watching television or something. 3. Rake in tons of money from scared bubbies and suburban soft-hearted neurotic do-gooders. 4. Pay salaries, snort cocaine*, repeat.
* This may not be what they actually do. Rumor has it they're addicted to Nintendo.
@amerika@pingviini@hfaust@sun The massive problem is that these NGOs are massively fucking shit for the public discourse (Well, the SPLC used to do something... not anymore) and in general people should be pretty mad that these NGOs are happily being used by the political establishment to further shit down public discourse because they're convenient
@coolboymew@amerika@hfaust@pingviini you are thinking of ACLU (who has since abandoned free speech too, which was a prediction made by american nazis who said that the purpose of the ACLU was to normalize degeneracy, at which point they would dump defending free speech)