Its interesting how people dismiss the internet as a place where weird people are. Like whenever you see someone spouting a horrible belief people go "Yeah that sucks, luckily we don't have to deal with it in the real world". But... these are real people with real jobs with real families with real political beliefs that they hide in the general public. People take the [neo-nazi, *phobe, or other fucking terrible people]'s reserved nature and state that since they themselves do not see people say racial slurs or call for the death of a minority in "the real world" that the person they saw on the internet isn't influential enough to matter. But do I need to remind you that people are online all of the time. People make the joke about people being chronically online but the amount of times that I, a self proclaimed chronically online person, had less screen time than the people who called us over for a movie night but instead watched tiktoks is astonding.
The internet is culture, you cannot remove the internet from society.
When people expouse a right-wing view online and refuse to do the same offline, what does that mean? Well it means that person fears physical violence but is perfectly fine with promoting that view otherwise. But its important for me to remind you that society depend on social media (to a fault) as a social space and as a place to learn about society. Its concerning the number of people that learn from "the algorithim" and whatever it promotes. People make memes of tragedies that happen minutes after it gets picked up by the algorithim. Do not dismiss the calls of violence by those who wish to do greater harm in real life but lack the numbers to out themselves: because the number of people who lack basic understanding of how to navigate life is greater than you would think.
This whole thing has reminded me of how dumb some of the students in my school were when I was in high school. Many of them would are unable to retain information or at least apply it at a basic level. School knowledge stays in school and will never get applied to the real world. Meanwhile they got into reputable schools that will somehow supply them with the life skills not to advance society but to generate profit for shareholders.