If you ever wanted to see hysterical paranoia in real time - then current Off-topics on NeoGAF are exactly that.
Usual far left lunatics crawled back to the site owned by the person, who, technically should be someone who they can not tolerate, and now whining how NG will turn into 4Chan.
As if it was not funny by itself, level of discorse is hilarious: some posters try to explain what exactly was wrong with NG community, but they met with arguments that all people who were banned or abandoned forum were "far righters" and bad people in general.
But some of them go even further and state that NeoGAF community only pretended to be liberal and that there were a lot of "
secret agents of far right using coded language and "dog whistles" to offend minorities" and that all bans were, of course, justified.
I have seen insanity in real life, when people refused to acknowledge reality and this is quite similar. One thing is desire to keep racists and homophobes away, but literally saying that everyone who were disagreeing with you were "racists, homophobes" and that those people are infesting forum and using coded language...it smells not of desire to be progressive.
It smells of fear mongering and paranoia, that their precious imaginary bubble, where everything is black and white, will be bursted and they will encounter real world, which is much more complicated and where they can't ban people who disagree with them about something.
Article-investigation about what happened on NeoGAF.
Also, admin of NeoGAF accused woman who made allegations, that she is "mentally ill". So much for a leader of bastion of liberalism and progress.