To be fair none of the racist fucks i have known ever posted racist shit on the internet, and didn't say anything racist in public, but behind closed doors in a safe suburban home they would tell you what they thought. These are the people who say "it's not polite to discuss politics" if they think you disagree with them, and they all vote, they want the far right world they just know it hurts people and they don't want to get yelled at.

russian bots came on the scene suddenly on the reddit around 2016, right after trump won his 1st stolen election. i was calling out how news article are associated with russia quite alot, one of the first significant things happen in 2018, banning were becoming increasingly common of misconstrued critcisim of the conservatives. now every other large sub had become hypersensitive over the talk of potential racism in any form. Putin figured out early on they can use this as a distraction, and it worked.

This is very true, BUT also consider that they're enabling and rallying the actual racists here to join together and fight for racism.