For reference, this shit blew up around late page 15 early, page 16.
Basic timeline:
Pg15: Ex posts twitter log that explains how British media are warping public opinion to make it seem like extremist muslims are more mainstream than is really the case. At that point I actually agreed with him since I think more focus has to be put on the snakes in the media. Zel says 'okay, but islam is still islam and it's shit and it's still going to produce terrorism whether Choudry is on the television or not'. Ex begins to push hard on the "vast majority of muslims are peaceful" bit.
Pg16: Given that this was a thread about a terrorist attack some people were a bit dark on ol' Ex pushing the narrative that this had nothing to do with islam and everything to do with media conspiracies since in this particular instance the terrorists were Choudry fans. Ex doubles down with something to the effect of "peaceful muslims are the ones paying the price" and Zel gets angry, replying that maybe the dozens of little girls killed with nailbombs are the ones technically "paying the price." Tigermandingo tells us we're all obsessed with nonsense. The rest of the page is mostly evidence that islamic aggression is not "nonsense".
Pg17: This is where Ex gets his panties in a twist and starts refuting people sentence by sentence. I tell him that Nazis have more in common with western society than muslims (as a means of putting the vast gulf in values into perspective. He says, "That's an indictment on western civilization, not an endorsement." It's at this point I suspect the he gets triggered into the stratosphere and never quite manages to come down. He posts a bunch of statistics about how only a few muslims want an islamic caliphate (a mere one in five it turns out) not realising the can of worms he's opened up. At this point Zel is getting riled up but most people are trying to talk Ex off of the ledge. I ask him a rather simple and direct question.
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@Excel: What is an acceptable percentage of a demographic that either commits violence in the name of their beliefs or supports the commiting of violence in the name of their beliefs before that demographic must be dealt with as a whole.
Pg18. This is where his shitfit hits second gear. He refuses to engage with that simple question honestly and it's in that moment that I personally thought "here we go..." We start getting more of the sentence-by-sentence quotes about how the west created terrorism and muslims are peaceful people who should not be mis-characterised as a group. Samseau notes the trade of slaves by muslims including black slaves and at this point we have reached critical mass. I hash out his own listed percentages of muslims wanting an islamic supremacy in terms of numbers of people and suggest that if they were white supremacists then there would be no talk of "the peaceful majority". At this point we find out that the west apparently
really is riddled, utterly soaked, with white supremacists so there is no moral high ground to be had against islamic supremacists. It's asked if "western fuckery in the middle east" might extend to protecting Israel's right to survive. Tigermandingo tells us that the world would be better off without Israel. This sparks some heat between me and Mandingo.
Pg19: Mandingo catches flack for his contradictory positions and calls for a ceasefire. We almost get to the end of the page before we find out from Excelsior that:
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I am black and I live in a nation where millions of people openly support not only the marginalization and disenfranchisement of people like myself (who they relentless dog as low iq genetic inferiors lacking in history/civilization, and unfit for western society), but also support white supremacy and policies designed to further it (up to and including neo-Nazism). I live in a nation where I would not even be a citizen if tens of millions of folks had their way, and quite a few more would prefer I not even be in the country.
You might note that millions of Americans are demonstrably
not having conversations about IQ/race/history/civilisation so at this point we can see that Ex has turned this issue into a society-wide surrogate for his lamentations of the shift in the forums' political direction. Other members call him out on this nonsense and by page 20 we're firmly in the territory of "you guys only hate muslims because you're a bunch of closet-white-supremacists".
From there the shit-show truly begins in earnest, spilling over into at least one other thread since Excelsior is now doggedly determined to prove to all and sundry that the race-blind utopia of the RVF has been infiltrated by white-supremacist Nazi shitlords who want to genocide him or at least get him deported.
An offshoot of Trump Derangement Syndrome, perhaps. Oh well, shit changes, including internet forums, and some people can't adapt or simply no longer care to. Ex was obviously unhappy but bit his tongue for quite some time. I suppose there were a lot more liberals on the forum once upon a time, but when you have a Trump thread with 2000+ pages it's somewhat inevitable that the heat gets a bit much for some. A few adapt. A few slink away. Others like Ex choose a thread to blow up in and crucify themselves. It's certainly nothing that conservatives haven't become quite used to suffering for, oh... let's say
the last five decades or so.