I've been saying since gamergate that the alt-right is a reactionary movement of pissy white boys who can't get laid, and want to blame everyone but themselves. They want to frame their rejection as others taking something away from them, rather than looking in a mirror.
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Replying to @rob_sheridan
That inchoate pain is *such* a potent lever to exploit. Find a group who feels that they’ve somehow been denied something, then offer them a narrative that affirms the “loss” of that “right” while pointing them at some superficially obvious cause of it. Boom! Instant rage army.
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Replying to @sfslim @rob_sheridan
Hate is always easier to cultivate than growth. Especially the sort of deep growth that demands opening up one’s wounds, and learning to sit with, and understand that pain. It’s terrifying. Even with loving, empathetic support. Without? Nigh on hopeless.
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Replying to @sfslim @rob_sheridan
Hell, I *was* one of those teens. Had my adolescent Internet been 4chan rather than The WELL, I could easily have fallen prey to such exploitation.
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Replying to @sfslim @rob_sheridan
It may seem trite to say this, but as I reflect on it now, I’m grateful I had “don’t give in to hate” (from the original
#StarWars trilogy) so deeply ingrained from such a young age. It was a far better inoculation than the sexually repressed mess the prequels replaced it with.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @sfslim
Yeah, I was one of those teens too. But the internet at that time (the dial-up days) was all about exploration and discovering, I channeled being a lonely teen into learning HTML and connecting with people who loved the same things I loved. I guess we were lucky.
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Replying to @rob_sheridan @sfslim
Wow, I'd never thought about the difference in the prequels in terms of the tone (the original trilogy being about hope and the building of a hero, the prequel trilogy being about an angry young man becoming a villain).
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Replying to @rob_sheridan
Yeah. Neither had I until just now. I’m kind of chilled, tbh. The two trilogies impart such fearfully different messages. And GWL was too naive and out-of-touch to have even realized it. (Void, but I recall *so* many cringe-worthy GWL moments during dailies.)
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Replying to @sfslim
Most convincing argument I've heard yet for why the prequels should have been more serious, "adult" films. I always thought that was just aging Star Wars fans wanting a childhood fantasy to age with them. But by making the prequels kid friendly, he raised a generation on anger.
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Replying to @rob_sheridan
And somehow utterly warped the original trilogy’s message (hate = the darkside, love & friendship = the light side, cf.
@mikeyface) when he asserted that “Jedis must never love”. A bullshit concept that was
responsible for creating Vader.
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One hardly needs to squint to see Anakin as teen whose sexual frustration drives him onto Reddit Incel forums, hateful of those “beta cuck Jedis”.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/10/07/incels-4chan-and-the-beta-uprising-making-sense-of-one-of-the-internets-most-reviled-subcultures/ …
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