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[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 5 days ago

That kind of sums up the difference Naomi Klein makes in Doppelganger about conspiracy theory and leftist critics: Leftists will look at the system while conspiracy theorists will assume the system is good but some people, most often Jews, have somehow corrupted it.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 5 days ago

Im sure you know Cory Doctrorow already but i still wanted to share this little section from one of his recent blogposts.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/19/systemic/

Trump's conspiratorial base are hugely and reliably animated by stories about impunity for elite sex predators. As well they should be! Elite sex predators get away with all kinds of crimes โ€“ not just Epstein, but the whole universe of powerful men, from Harvey Weinstein to Donald Trump, who systematically abused women for decades and got away with it โ€“ bragged about it, even!

But despite these very real abusers, the conspiracists in the Trump base are mostly concerned with imaginary abusers โ€“ Qanon's shadowy cabal of adrenochrome-guzzling pedophiles, tirelessly freighting trafficked children from one nonexistent pizza parlor basement to the next, packed inside of very mid Wayfair home furnishings:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/05/ideomotor-response/#qonspiracy

This is the "mirror world" of right wing conspiracism described in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/#if-the-naomi-be-klein-youre-doing-just-fine

It's the world in which real suffering children (kids in cages, children rotting in Alligator Auschwitz, kids working the night-shift at a meat-packing plant) don't matter at all, while imaginary children (unborn children, Qanon victims, etc) take center stage.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

The general difference, though unspoken, is that the kids being "trafficked" in their heads are white middle class suburban kids. A lot of conspiracy simply leads back to antisemitism, white supremacy, or both.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Yes, they don't care about the real victims because those kids have the wrong skin tone.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

Good king, eeeeeeevil nobility

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