I’m primarily referencing the people in the Kyle Rittenhouse post from a day ago, but as a general reference for the remainder of Hexbear.chat threads and forums where we have apologists for fascists and reactionary politics, policies, figures, and dog whistles.
In the context of this forum, or the internet in general, they are trolls. Their inciteful and hateful remarks are not made in good faith, and are meant to inspire frustration and attention.
Ideally, spamming pigpoopballs should be the response to bad faith trolls but sunlight is not the best antidote to their poison - removal of their poisonous dialogue is the best antidote.
Sure, if it going poorly to the point our dunks aren’t sufficiently chastising them, or it’s taking place in a comm that is explicitly supposed to be a safe space then a mod should step in, but the subreddit worked on the explicit premise that the users took out the trash and the mods just swept in afterwards to clear out the detritus left over.