Important clarification/FAQ

I am not calling to coddle or excuse the behavior of bigoted men in any way!

I am calling to be kind and understanding to young men (often ages 10-20) who are very manipulable and succeptible to the massive anti feminist propaganda machine. Hope this clarifies that very important distinction. :)

Very good comments that express key points:

Edit: This post has now been removed and restored twice. I want to encourage you all:

Be decent to one another

I think this post is a valuable thing given the current state of the Fediverse, please don’t fuck it up for us by being toxic in the comments.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Yeah see the problem with the first two examples you came up with is that I can count a lot of people I’ve interacted with that believe that shit. Maybe I need to get new friend groups, but it’s really hard to avoid poe’s law online,

    i think part of the trick for all of them is weaponized apathy to be honest. Because with something like human rights, you could be a queer person for example, and say that you shouldn’t have human rights, even though you’re literally married for example. The entire point is hitting people with something that makes so little sense it forces them to think about it properly.

    Going to a protest and just like bringing a grill and being like “I just want to grill for god’s sake”. You’ve arrived at the function to grill but also to be apathetic in public where people will see your apathy, very nice, very absurd.

    yeah, that would be epic, i should totally do that some day. Show up to a protest and start doing community work for free for no fucking reason lol. Pathetic millennial (a now dead channel that i used to enjoy) did that a few times as a shtick, it was pretty good.

    Ooh, new strat I just remembered exists that might solve this issue a little bit, self-contradictory satire. It gets everyone really mad, but also it’s impossible to conceptualize of what’s actually being said without putting in a little bit of thought to actually sus out what’s happening there.

    yeah that could be another good one, the problem there is that it’s very LAMF material, much like gay republicans being attacked by their own political party.

    A satire of everyone, total hypothetical.

    satire of nothing/everyone might also be a really good way of bringing out the extremely non personable nature of these things