I know this is a point I hit a lot, but could everyone who reads this PLEASE pass this along, and stop acting as a megaphone for hate?
There is no upside to constantly sharing examples of the absolute worst humanity has to offer with everyone who follows you on social media, and you are in fact...
doing harm, both in amplifying hate speech, and just randomly traumatizing and demoralizing people with some of this stuff.
I understand where the urge to do this comes from. You see something bad, you can't think of a way to personally help, so you just shout about it hoping someone else can, but
you are fundamentally doing so in the wrong places. Generally speaking people who are networked together on sites like this having similar politics and news feeds. So you're "raising awareness" exclusively with people who are already very much aware.
If you need to tell someone about this sort of
thing, the most productive version of that is to take all these examples of nazis gleefully talking about murdering people and absolute monsters celebrating deaths of children and so on, copy down the links and also take decently compressed screenshots, write up a little context, and start feeding
a regular digest of them to your government representatives and clueless relatives who certainly don't act like they're aware of this stuff, and explain how you want them to change their behavior in accordance with this being reality.
If that's not enough to get it out of your head, there's therapy
And if that's not an option for whatever reason and you still need to vent, OK sure, go for it, but leave out the direct quotes. Saying like, "someone showed me this post from a nazi today that was so nakedly evil I'm shaking" is going to help getting it out of your head about as well as forwarding
it, but you aren't going to inflict it on anyone else, and you're more likely to get sympathetic responses or gifs of kittens or whatever, which will make you feel a bit better and restore some faith in humanity maybe. Speaking of!
And of course if you're seeing the horrible stuff directly, rather
than look for someone to shout "can you believe this!?" at, consider blocking the horrible person, or actively confronting them if that's a safe enough option.
Recruiting people to make it a safer option may also be on the table, but like, withhold the horrific examples unless/until they ask for'em