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It was a bit of a wild ride, so I had some trouble grasping the inclination of the founders/mods. Looking back now, with some of the things posted in this thread, I think it may have been pure naivete. My gut assumption was that it got picked up and thrown into popularity by guys from thedonald, it matched their sort of "energy" and interests. I've always thought they were naive as well, so I feel reinforced in my assumption.

It got a lot of attention for a while and now it can be used as a jab until it gets banned as hatespeech everywhere. So we'll at least see it once in a while even if there's no official group for it.

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I think we all have some highly valid theories for this, but I'm personally not prepared to discuss mine in a coherent way. No matter your theory, though, it'll come down to a second question of "why are the perpetrators immune to the law".