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.

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    That’s a good pick, and I’d like to add that anything involving “Chris-Chan” is another massive red flag that it’s not just a chud, but one of the especially lowly super-internet-poisoned chuds. Like the chuds that other chuds are like “get the fuck away from me.”

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      Full disclosure, I was into the whole picking on Christine Chandler thing for a while during my edgier years. I eventually grew out of it as I actually came around to being an empathetic person and my foray into leftism. The recent news about her and what she did to her mom and subsequent jailing is so sad, this is a person who was so failed by society and absolutely preyed upon by horrible people. Really hate how self-righteous a lot of these stalkers are, they hold her up as an example of why it’s okay actually to stalk and harass mentally ill people. Mind you, I don’t condone what she did, but I wasn’t surprised in the least.

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        i watched a long youtube video about her a years ago (pre-transition, i believe) and seeing the way people treated her… like, how could that not destroy someone? the Internet tortured her and made her declining mental state a spectator sport

        i don’t remember the full context/details, but there was one event described where someone (a woman i think?) pretended to be her friend/fan, and then destroyed her yellow sonic necklace (which she was always wearing and clearly meant a lot to her). it genuinely made me cry

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          i don’t remember the full context/details, but there was one event described where someone (a woman i think?) pretended to be her friend/fan, and then destroyed her yellow sonic necklace (which she was always wearing and clearly meant a lot to her). it genuinely made me cry

          yea they tortured the fuck out of her. The most notable I can remember was a young kid pretending to be a girl and coming on to him/leading him on, which lead to him leaking a sex tape. Can’t even begin to imagine the mental state of her trolls sitting back and being like “oh hell yeah, I just tricked an autistic person into doing a sex tape!”

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      Omg, yes! It boggles my mind how casually people on the internet will bring the fact that a big part of their childhoods was stalking and bullying a severely mentally ill person. So weird. The saga’s more mainstream than other chan-related things. There’re hours-long documentaries this person’s life and a subreddit with thousands of members—and everyone just acts like it’s completely normal even now.

      My hot take: the level of hatred for just that one individual did more damage to the public’s perception of autistic people than Autism Speaks.

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        That’s something I find especially insufferable about the people who love “lolcows”, is that actually e-stalking people for more than a decade makes you the freak if you do it, you aren’t so above your subject when you act like a fucking chanlet.

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          I’ve given up on those sites ever being taken down. Silver lining is that a lot of right-wingers (i.e. Red Scare, Yarvin, etc.) are targets now. Fingers crossed that internet trash chokes to death on its own fumes.