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But if you don't agree with a conspiracy theorist they have to deny that you have a good point, because if they don't their entire worldview collapses, so they'

by mavhc 5y ago

But if you don't agree with a conspiracy theorist they have to deny that you have a good point, because if they don't their entire worldview collapses, so they'll obviously say "we're not being listened to" If someone who's read a whole book about something wants to criticize it, fair enough, but I'll bet money that 99% of people hating CRT can barely spell CRT Top tip: Don't stand next to a conspiracy theorist, people will think you're a conspiracy theorist. Calm down the crazy people who agree with you so they don't steal all the attention and make you look crazy too.

A4ET8a8uTh0 5y ago
<< Top tip: Don't stand next to a conspiracy theorist, people will think you're a conspiracy theorist. Calm down the crazy people who agree with you so they don't steal all the attention and make you look crazy too. I used to think this way and I will admit that guilt by association is a very strong driver for one simple reason. It works. But it is a double edged sword. Note how well it was used to lower public support for OWS and now BLM simply by associating both groups with less than savory types the public is not willing to support. As far the 99% claim, I don't have data to back it up so it is hard for me to opine. I only hear of CRT as part of my news feeds. I mean, it has its own wiki ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory ) and I can kinda see why it is being perceived as a threat to status quo based on that entry, but I personally see it as inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. As a side note, I want to point to something amusing, which will hopefully lighten the mood somewhat. Not that long, anyone suggesting NSA has the reach disclosed by Snowden was dismissed as a conspiracy nut.
- mavhc 5y ago
  There's something to be said for having a more crazy group you can denounce and make yourself appear to be the sane one. But it's probably not a better strategy than just being perceived as sane. Problem is the attention is gathered by the crazy soundbites, not the real complex questions behind them. When all the media bothers with are tweets anything longer than 140 characters is lost. "Reallocate some of the police budget to fund mental health workers" is apparently too long a slogan. As for the NSA, isn't that why people said encrypt everything though? The main question to me was could they store/process all the data they could possibly/easily obtain? The original stories were about them being able to store and search everything, which is clearly impossible, they had to target searches to capture small parts of the entire data stream and throw away 99.99999%, and they'd not cracked encryption on any useful scale either.

by mavhc 5y ago

A4ET8a8uTh0 5y ago

<< Top tip: Don't stand next to a conspiracy theorist, people will think you're a conspiracy theorist. Calm down the crazy people who agree with you so they don't steal all the attention and make you look crazy too. I used to think this way and I will admit that guilt by association is a very strong driver for one simple reason. It works. But it is a double edged sword. Note how well it was used to lower public support for OWS and now BLM simply by associating both groups with less than savory types the public is not willing to support. As far the 99% claim, I don't have data to back it up so it is hard for me to opine. I only hear of CRT as part of my news feeds. I mean, it has its own wiki ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory ) and I can kinda see why it is being perceived as a threat to status quo based on that entry, but I personally see it as inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. As a side note, I want to point to something amusing, which will hopefully lighten the mood somewhat. Not that long, anyone suggesting NSA has the reach disclosed by Snowden was dismissed as a conspiracy nut.

mavhc 5y ago
There's something to be said for having a more crazy group you can denounce and make yourself appear to be the sane one. But it's probably not a better strategy than just being perceived as sane. Problem is the attention is gathered by the crazy soundbites, not the real complex questions behind them. When all the media bothers with are tweets anything longer than 140 characters is lost. "Reallocate some of the police budget to fund mental health workers" is apparently too long a slogan. As for the NSA, isn't that why people said encrypt everything though? The main question to me was could they store/process all the data they could possibly/easily obtain? The original stories were about them being able to store and search everything, which is clearly impossible, they had to target searches to capture small parts of the entire data stream and throw away 99.99999%, and they'd not cracked encryption on any useful scale either.