What are the go-to subjects for revealing the true, regressive beliefs of reactionaries who don’t consider themselves reactionary? Off the top of my head:

-Trans people in sports: Major gateway to transphobia and misogyny. Complaints about trans athletes inevitably lead to sexism towards literally any woman with muscles. Pretty sure this is how Joe Rogan and a ton of his supporters became so unhinged.

-Affirmative action: So, so many liberals and “leftists” will complain about how they would’ve totally gotten into Harvard and Yale if not for The Blackstm. Love to bring up SAT scores even though they’ve been proven to be racist and classist and a shit metric for intellectual value.

-Shakespeare authorship question: A bit niche. Basically, Curtis Yarvin and other Dark Enlightenment dweebs don’t think that Shakespeare was capable of penning such timeless plays because he wasn’t rich, and according to them, not rich=dumb and uncreative mental husk.

  • SnAgCu [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Complaining about “Politics” in their video games/ media is usually a bad sign

    “I wish they would stop forcing all of this POLITICAL stuff into my video games” - definite reactionary

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      No politics whatsoever for a grizzled white father figure avenging his dead wife and maybe rescuing/defending a daughter figure from them stalin-gun-1 frothingfash us-foreign-policy