• negativenull@negativenull.com
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    1 year ago

    It’s absolutely happening again (if it ever stopped). Did you notice how “Critical Race Theory” was all conservatives ever talked about, for weeks/months on end, and then they all suddenly stopped, and then they couldn’t stop talking about Trans/Drag things? It’s all contrived panic. It’s well coordinated to drive engagement and a sense of impending doom. They require an Us vs Them mentality to survive.

    • DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no
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      1 year ago

      The easiest way to make an ignorant person feel special is to identify an “other” for the ignorant person to look down on/blame for their problems.

      1. Manufacture a scapegoat
      2. Charismatic speaker blames the scapegoat
      3. Get power/money

      Oldest trick in the oldest of books.

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      1 year ago

      Yep.

      When I was growing up, it had to spread at the speed of chain emails through AOL dial-up (remember the Proctor-Gamble thing? 🙄 ). Now it’s a 24-hour news cycle spouting constant hate and fear. :sigh: