GAFers calling Era toxic is the most Spider-Man pointing meme thing ever. They're both mental illness-inducing fever swamps, but at least the folks on Era are only partially doing it to be self-serving assholes. The current incarnation of GAF is pretty much just "I'm a horrible person who needs an outlet but I'm too introverted for Twitter and too old for 4chan. Free speech!!" Like, at least try to make jokes or something.BIL wrote:It's been an interesting time in Kankel Kultur, with the release of Hogwarts Legacy revealing... NAZIS EVERYWHERE
Even in the highest echelons of Resetera!
But the moral absolutist (when easy and convenient) black & white thinking behind that Harry Potter ban is Era to the core, as it was on GAF before that. I'm not kidding when I say it's mental illness-inducing to contort oneself to the arbitrarily shifting morality the community mandates. When I used to hang out there some of those characters were fucking bonkers, and not in a fun way. It got to the point where I just bookmarked the Destiny 2 thread and tried to shut the rest of it out.
Nah dude. You don't get gaslighting sympathy when you're the multi-millionaire holocaust denier. His whole routine is just basic boring confirmation bias & association fallacies. If your go-to solution is apartheid, you were never arguing in good faith to begin with.I can't blame him too much tbh, even if his statements are patently racist. Nobody, black or white, likes being gaslit.
I've read stuff that laid out the "make everyone in America a nazi" Overton-shift step by step, and it's older than the Overton concept itself. These people have been at it forever, but there's finally enough frustration & anger in society to make it work.This is what I worry about. Most people aren't bigots. They don't hate anybody, as long as nobody's hating them. However, like any animal, they will get jumpy very quickly if threatened. And if you give them an easy, no-questions-asked escape from that threat, or better yet, a means of eliminating it? A good deal of them will flock to it. None of this is new or surprising, it's Race War 101. Lots of money and power in it, for those safely outside the line of fire.