I’ve been on the internet for a long, long while, and recently the internet has been becoming more and more racist, misogynist, etc. A lot of media apps rolled back their protections of LGBTQ+ people a hot while ago, and my old home of Reddit has devolved into pure insanity. There were new subs popping up left and right that only existed just to be racist and misogynist, it was MADDENING. Before Trump got elected, subs like that would be banned in like… a month, now they’re just letting that shit slide. Christ even I got banned for calling out misogyny. It’s gonna be damn near impossible to abandon. There’s a fuckload of communities and people there, but, oh well… But looking outside of Reddit, it feels like EVERYWHERE is a path into the alt-right pipeline, it’s MADDENING. It’s gotten this bad and it hasn’t even completed a full fucking year, I feel like I’m losing my goddamn mind My only real methods of communicating to people have been limited to Discord and here… it’s so lonely
Yeah it is maddening. The powers that be put a lot of money into manufacturing right-wing consent on the internet, and it seems all that grooming paid off for them because holy shit it’s hell in most spaces.
Social media spaces outside of here feel like walking back into the early 2010s. It’s all “ironic” homophobia, ableism and suicide jokes.
Liberal rascism is a classic bit as well
That one grinds my gears way more than the overt racism, the overt racist knows they’re a piece of shit and proud of it, but these liberal racists twists themselves into knots insisting that their position is actually anti-racist and that opposing their racism is the real racism.
Malcolm X quote about conservatives being wolves and liberals being foxes goes here.
grinning like a shot fox everytime you eat shit in an election