Concerning 4chan

I'm sure we all know of 4chan. It is regularly thought of as the cesspool of the Internet--the lawless West of the Web, manifest as a looming tower of undulating porn with horses in, a place infested with memes and assholes where sanity goes to die. In short, not generally a favorite of most people. If you make yourself known there, you're going to be met with mild disinterest at best; at the worst, you'll get the kind of open hostility that can burn the Teflon off a politician's back and send him crying home to his mistress. Complete toss-up. Such are the ways of Anonymous.

Which is why it always surprises me that in 4chan, the land of C-C-C-COMBO BREAKERS, ultimata concerning the prompt exposure of tits, and one of the premiere stomping grounds of some of the world's greatest trolls, every once in a while comes across as so very...humanist.

I present as proof this image, conveying their reactions to various Christian Fundamentalist assertions. I don't generally give a fuck about religion, honestly--so long as folk don't go trying to foist their beliefs on others, I'm fine with them. If a person thinks that the world is only 6,000 years old or that DNA is a confabulation meant to perpetuate the lie of evolution or whatever, but doesn't try to convince me of it and/or call me a blasphemer every few minutes, then I'm okay with that person. Faith is a personal thing. I happen to have more faith in people as a whole than I do in anything else, and that's my own deal. But when your personal beliefs begin impinging upon the rights of other people, that's when we have a problem.

Anyway, this post was mostly meant to be an exercise in...curiosity. 4chan--racist, misogynist, misanthropic, schadenfreudean 4chan--wields surprising principles, considering its bizarre little society.

Food for thought, I suppose.

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