@amerika @wjmaggos @jeremiah @Moon This is my thought, yeah. You can't get rid of David Duke without getting rid of Blazing Saddles.

Not just that, but you see people hop alts, change their names, etc. I think trying on a face and seeing how people react to that face is important for a yoof, otherwise they don't figure out how their society works. Maybe a teenager tries on David Duke: it's inadvisable, but so is anything a teenager does. (It's the major time of obvious bad decisions, then you get to spend the rest of your life on Byzantine faults.) You give "Because you're not allowed" as the only reason for not being something, people will do it anyway, but "Everyone will think you are a dickhead" is sufficient to deter most people from doing something that doesn't mesh with society. (The two notable exceptions being the actual dickhead, and the guy that is convinced he is correct. Actual dickheads are unavoidable and sometimes the guy that is convinced he's correct *is*. It's like an "Are you sure?" dialog, a social impediment.)

It's like Cunningham's Law, which I'm certain I've said something about in this thread but in any case cited recently: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." Likewise, the quickest way to convince a teenager that they should not become David Duke is to just let them be David Duke for a minute.