The first thing we need to start doing is to address our self-censorship out of genuine fear of conservatives harassing us with threats and tweet-ratioing rage. The right wing thrives on getting us to apologize to or condemn whomever they want through doing performative hysteria and trying to trap us with accusations of hypocrisy. They l…
The first thing we need to start doing is to address our self-censorship out of genuine fear of conservatives harassing us with threats and tweet-ratioing rage. The right wing thrives on getting us to apologize to or condemn whomever they want through doing performative hysteria and trying to trap us with accusations of hypocrisy. They love ganging up on some individual journalist until the journalist either consciously or subconsciously decides to hold their tongue, lock their accounts, and be less inflammatory.
We fear wading into right wing spaces to argue against their most popular talking points and thought terminating cliches, we fear we will fall on deaf years and get ourselves unnecessarily dogpiled by vitriol. We may even fear that we'll read something triggering or an argument too potent in favor of racism/sexism for us to argue against. This kind of ignoring the most salient and fresh right wing arguments, rather than developing galvanizing rhetoric in parallel that sounds more convincing, this kind of exclusively trying to tell or own in-group some right winger is being appalling rather than clearly articulating why it is bad in a way that lets any layperson who scrolls by to enthusiastically agree, this is how we've kept losing ground to the right since Gamergate.
What is our future vision as described in positive terms that get the least politically engaged person to start dreaming with us? Did you all know that the only prominent person who unapologetically defended drag queen story hours to right wing media at the height of transphobic hate this year was Chase Oliver the libertarian candidate? Did you guys know that the most effective and unphased-by-threats dismantlers of popular redpill/incel arguments online are evopsych people and educated Christian female bloggers? We are not facing our opposition head-on in any sense of the term.
What if all prominent anti-Trump people said some form of "Trump is still a dictator except now with an ear piercing?" Sure if one person says this they'll get mobbed, but if everyone says it and does not recant it, it will exhaust the right wing outrage machine, get them to hit their ceiling of rage generated and force them to concede to not being able to phase us. Most of us are too scared of and triggered by the fascist outlooks in right wing spaces to make regular direct challenges to their spread and corners if the internet where they recruit. And if we're hiding from that we have no chance to take on real-world violence.
When was the last time conservatives were genuinely intimidated by a ideological movement or politician on the left side of the political spectrum? When the left side NOT felt intimidated by a right wing ideological movement or politician?
The first thing we need to start doing is to address our self-censorship out of genuine fear of conservatives harassing us with threats and tweet-ratioing rage. The right wing thrives on getting us to apologize to or condemn whomever they want through doing performative hysteria and trying to trap us with accusations of hypocrisy. They love ganging up on some individual journalist until the journalist either consciously or subconsciously decides to hold their tongue, lock their accounts, and be less inflammatory.
We fear wading into right wing spaces to argue against their most popular talking points and thought terminating cliches, we fear we will fall on deaf years and get ourselves unnecessarily dogpiled by vitriol. We may even fear that we'll read something triggering or an argument too potent in favor of racism/sexism for us to argue against. This kind of ignoring the most salient and fresh right wing arguments, rather than developing galvanizing rhetoric in parallel that sounds more convincing, this kind of exclusively trying to tell or own in-group some right winger is being appalling rather than clearly articulating why it is bad in a way that lets any layperson who scrolls by to enthusiastically agree, this is how we've kept losing ground to the right since Gamergate.
What is our future vision as described in positive terms that get the least politically engaged person to start dreaming with us? Did you all know that the only prominent person who unapologetically defended drag queen story hours to right wing media at the height of transphobic hate this year was Chase Oliver the libertarian candidate? Did you guys know that the most effective and unphased-by-threats dismantlers of popular redpill/incel arguments online are evopsych people and educated Christian female bloggers? We are not facing our opposition head-on in any sense of the term.
What if all prominent anti-Trump people said some form of "Trump is still a dictator except now with an ear piercing?" Sure if one person says this they'll get mobbed, but if everyone says it and does not recant it, it will exhaust the right wing outrage machine, get them to hit their ceiling of rage generated and force them to concede to not being able to phase us. Most of us are too scared of and triggered by the fascist outlooks in right wing spaces to make regular direct challenges to their spread and corners if the internet where they recruit. And if we're hiding from that we have no chance to take on real-world violence.
When was the last time conservatives were genuinely intimidated by a ideological movement or politician on the left side of the political spectrum? When the left side NOT felt intimidated by a right wing ideological movement or politician?