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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Sorry to talk about this couple again, but people are discovering the eugenicists are also big time racists
@Soyweiser @BlueMonday1984
Wait, are those AMERICANS asking:
"Is the Arab brain 🧠 incompatible with democracy?"
The Americans who overthrew an Iranian democracy to install a dictator and are currently overthrowing their own elected government so they can be ruled by dictator? Those Americans?
🤣🙃
#uspol #iran
Most inhabitants of Iran would dislike being called Arabs... but I guess the lazy racists are just using it as a shorthand for "brown people who are Muslim"
It's kind of a missed opportunity too, what with how heavily the OG Persians feature in the early chapters of the racist "clash of civilizations" narrative.
@Soyweiser @BlueMonday1984 I think the real question is - are white men incompatible with democracy.
Because it seems like it at the moment.
@Soyweiser @BlueMonday1984
Whenever I see this accusation I'm reminded of the opposite accusation:
" Are white western people biologically predisposed to colonising the globe, imposing dictators on non-white people (incl Arabs), and normalising genocide and violence on non-white people ... all whilst maintaining a beautiful polite decorum around the superiority of human rights and democracy?"
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/father-hand-belgian-congo-1904/
#history
@Soyweiser @BlueMonday1984 I was wondering where this was hosted, and it’s just fucking YouTube.
Once again, AUP’s are just brand safety, and brand safety is just whatever make the most money.
Ah, yes, Western Paganism is famed for its uniformity of belief and complete lack of objectionable people saying hateful things. (Pay no attention to the Nazis behind the curtain, they're not Real Pagans™.)
It gets worse.
Btw, the 'teen pregnancy' thing, is prob a bit ahistorical. If we use teen marriages as a standing for teen pregnancies, these were historically very low. (contrary to what people believe about the past, mostly because strategic marriages by rich people/nobles were not, but those people were not normal people) See: https://bsky.app/profile/nogoodwyfe.bsky.social/post/3lv2ehbn7pc2x
But reactionaries gotta go back to some imagined ideal past. No matter what actually learned people say. (and that is also why the far right is anti-intellectual).
Joining the war on teen pregnancies on the side of teen pregnancies to bring back the ideal past of - check notes - the 1990ies in the US.
(At least a cursory look points toward teen pregnancies in the US peeking some time in the 1990ies.)
I assume they don't know teen pregnancies peaked in the 90s.
This is just haplessly comical. The AI-generated sinister hijab lady, the attempts at algorithm-compliant YouTube face, the fact that they're doing this instead of raising their kids (which may be beneficial for the kids in the long run...) Who do they imagine they're convincing?
I'd assume they need X pieces of ~~flair~~ propaganda to get their theilbucks.
I think they get to cash in their Racism Points for Thielbucks at the end of the month