What are the go-to subjects for revealing the true, regressive beliefs of reactionaries who don’t consider themselves reactionary? Off the top of my head:

-Trans people in sports: Major gateway to transphobia and misogyny. Complaints about trans athletes inevitably lead to sexism towards literally any woman with muscles. Pretty sure this is how Joe Rogan and a ton of his supporters became so unhinged.

-Affirmative action: So, so many liberals and “leftists” will complain about how they would’ve totally gotten into Harvard and Yale if not for The Blackstm. Love to bring up SAT scores even though they’ve been proven to be racist and classist and a shit metric for intellectual value.

-Shakespeare authorship question: A bit niche. Basically, Curtis Yarvin and other Dark Enlightenment dweebs don’t think that Shakespeare was capable of penning such timeless plays because he wasn’t rich, and according to them, not rich=dumb and uncreative mental husk.

  • wahwahwah [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    11 months ago

    -kinda related conspiracy theory “enjoyers:” all you have to do is ask who “they” are or why “they” would do anything like what they suggest. These guys operate on advanced antisemitism

    Any time people bring up the Rothschild family, I bow out. Obvi, rich scions suck dick and should have all their money taken away, but it’s super obvious why Alex Jones types focus on that particular group.