Adopting is the key word actually. Mask off is revealing it.

I did read the portion accessible, I quoted it in my original comment.

I guess you could define radicalization like that, but I'd define it as taking regular Joe with no hate and you know radicalizing them.

Radicalization (or radicalisation) is the process by which an individual or a group comes to adopt increasingly radical views in opposition to a political, social, or religious status quo.

Yeah I think there's a difference between radicalization and mask off.

Radicalization happens yes, it's a question of The Donald specifically doing it. It's not so big that many people will just randomly stumble into it like Fox (which is passive and 24/7). People have to kinda seek the sub out and engage. At that point they were probably quietly, let's just say, racist. So I put that in the category of mask off. I know people they could do that.

Did it actually radicalize, or just take the mask off? They may have used vocabularies they always wanted to.

Using an original dataset of Reddit user posting histories from 2015–2017, I test for increases in the frequency of this far-right vocabulary.

I think there's a lot to be discussed on the topic but I wouldn't put much on this methodology.