Especially in modern online culture, with its oft-unhealthy obsession with ideology, performative behaviors, and political identities, one should recognize that there's a wide gray spectrum here - from someone who is "purely" an NVE, to people superficially adopting the appearances of various groups and ideologies, to people who may "obviously" be exemplary members or adherents to a group or ideology...but their underlying motives are all-too-clearly to articulate/fuel/inspire/justify/support their NVE condition.
A bit of a code-word for "anything that doesn’t fit into our own world-view". I see this phrase tossed around right-wing circles quite a bit, and it should be regarded carefully.
I took a continuing ed course on this recently, and it was horrid. You can do some pretty despicable stuff if you convince others that morality is fake and you can do whatever sounds fun. It’s like a cult of sociopathy.
Their general MO was to push a kid on the fringes to do something illegal, then blackmail them into upping the risk and illegality. They collected videos of all those “for lulz”. Various crimes included producing CSAM, torturing animals, and assaulting or killing random people.
It’s rare that I sit my kids down and have them watch training videos with me. With this, I did, to show them what’s out there and help them identify it if they ever came across it.
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Their general MO was to push a kid on the fringes to do something illegal, then blackmail them into upping the risk and illegality. They collected videos of all those “for lulz”. Various crimes included producing CSAM, torturing animals, and assaulting or killing random people.
It’s rare that I sit my kids down and have them watch training videos with me. With this, I did, to show them what’s out there and help them identify it if they ever came across it.