Anonymous
asked:
I appreciate what you're going for, yet I have my disagreements. This is my opinion, no need for pissy comments. So, here goes. It's the internet, with millions of sites. Can't you just IGNORE 4chan? That'd be a reasonable thing to do.
shutdown4chan
answered:

Can’t you just IGNORE the nazis?

Can’t you just IGNORE 9/11?

Can’t you just IGNORE that gaping flesh wound in your neck?

No, bad things happen when you live in ignorance. Innocent people die.

While 4chan can be considered quite small when compared to the rest of the internet (facebook, tumblr, twitter etc) that doesn’t mean they don’t have a disproportionate level of power. They’ve hacked politicians and governments, they’ve hacked major tech companies and used their technical superiority to harass normal people to the point of suicide.

It’s almost like saying the wealthiest 1% have no power over the 99%.

Racism is unacceptable, even if their numbers are apparently small. Racism is like a cancer that’s just waiting to grow uncontrollably and destroy an otherwise healthy society. The only known treatment for cancer is to identify it early and hit it hard. You need to fight it with everything you have.

4chan is the racist 1%

4chan is a racist cancer

We are the 99% and it’s time to fight this cancer.

shutdown4chan

Maybe if the U.S. wasn’t so intolerant to Islam we wouldn’t have had 9/11

loatheoflaughing

WHAT

shutdown4chan

Do you remember that weird little time we like to call “the 90s” when we spent our time irradiating and crippling most of Iraq and the middle east?

Yeah, it pissed people off and mutilated their children. It’s not a far stretch from the truth to outright say that the USA spends its time mutilating children.