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[–] ShitArchon 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago  (edited ago)

I still remember reading that comment and shaking my head at the ignorance. You have completely missed the point of the poem. The entire moral of it is that people like you always think you have the moral high ground until "they come" for you too. You have the poem right in front of you and are so arrogant that you are ignoring the message ... just like the guy in the poem. I was reminded again of this comment lately since Reddit's censorship has changed up another gear and since they have been sponsored by a Chinese censorship company that has started shadowbanning anyone using a VPN. The censorship is so bad that even normies are noticing. Just a little schadenfreude for me.

Yep. The normie in that post went "well, I'm one of the good people, so it will never happen to me, bad things only happen to bad people." WatchPeopleDie wasn't even a right-wing sub, cringe sub, creepshot sub, etc. New Zealand authorities have not only screwed over American policemen who need that footage for active-shooter training, they've made everyone want to sympathize with the shooter. If their goal was to make me go "WTF I love mass shooters now" for the first time in my life--when beforehand I hated them because even right-wing ones act directly against furthering any good cause--they've done a damn good job. I'm going to be honestly cheering every time a New Zealand cop gets murdered now, that's how much of a misanthrope they've made me. Why shouldn't I? They only exist to tyrannize the populace and take away our freedom, they didn't even bother to shoot and kill the guy when he was gunning down his victims (meanwhile, American cops are trigger-happy about shooting a homeowner's non-threatening dog).

I remember several years ago when ReallyGheyLuxray posted on /r/socialism about socialists teaming up with capitalists against fascists. I should PM her with a link to her post, point out Facebook, Google and Reddit's censorship policies, and ask "is this what you wanted? Is getting a 400-year prison sentence because Heather Heyer had a heart attack fair? Is jailing a man for "attempted murder" when he fights back against an assailant who hit him in the head with a flashlight? Does the Constitution not apply to right-wingers? IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED MOTHERFUCKER? DO YOU ANARCHISTS WANT A POLICE STATE? BECAUSE IT SURE LOOKS LIKE YOU LOVE HAVING A POLICE STATE THAT CRACKS DOWN ON DISSIDENTS."

It's the same shit Altemeyer warned about in The Authoritarians, whether it's left-wingers like John Roy Carlson making a big scare about "secret Nazi armies" or right-wing jingoists going on about how Chelsea Manning is a horrible traitor, Murika, etc. The more authoritarian someone is, the less I like them.

That's why I hate how Voat turned from being an offensive shitlord site in 2015 to a site where damn near everyone's an authoritarian Bible-thumper who'd be better off on /pol/ in 2018--and Kiwi Farms and Cringe Anarchy even moreso. Kiwi Farms, GenderCritical and CringeAnarchy sound exactly like Anita Bryant if you replace "homosexuals" with "troons:"

  • The same emotional "think about the children!" arguments,

  • the same "parents who let their kids be what they want are commiting child abuse, parents who abuse their kids for gender atypical behavior are good parents,"

  • the same "X don't reproduce, they recruit!"

They're similar enough that blasting David Allen Coe's "Fuck Anita Bryant" feels cathartic after reading CringeAnarchy's argument that transition is bad because dads don't like it and have a miserable look on their faces. What about Gabrielle's church-going grandparents in TransGeneration, then? Why isn't Gabrielle's grandfather miserable like that, shouldn't he have the same facial expression if transition is the controlling factor here?

It's like the time a TERF thought antifa were great, until she was on Speaker's Corner, the one spot in England you're supposed to be able to say what you like, and got punched by said antifa. Or all the nice white liberals who supported the ANC on the premise of being nice to Bantus, and then got assfucked by the ANC and got to have power outages, a weak currency, and a Thirld World-corrupt government.