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How much of it is about past lies and injustices though? Are UFOs emblematic of real world suffering? Is there a long list of elections rigged in the US? Are WA
by notahacker 5y ago
How much of it is about past lies and injustices though? Are UFOs emblematic of real world suffering? Is there a long list of elections rigged in the US? Are WASPs actually the most victimised social class in the US? The grievances often take weird directions precisely because people's existence is comfortable enough for them to have to manufacture them, or latch onto the grievances of figures they feel affinity with. Superficially, theories of aliens at Roswell pattern match onto real world issues with military secrecy, but that's because of how humans tell stories more than because military secrecy disproportionately hurt people who watched a lot of alien movies.
Telling people they're privileged when they feel pretty ordinary or calling them stupid when they're literally just asking questions doesn't help matters, but neither does telling them that yes, actually they really are victims of X on a significant scale but it's not quite like the only people talking about a massive problem with X say it is...
And whether the underlying grievances are real or not, the trouble with "Qanon makes a very good point but..." is that not only does it not seem to win many true believers over, but it also seems to encourage lots of people that happen to have legitimate grievances (or feel like they should have some) but haven't paid the strange sounding theories the slightest attention before. Why would you trust the people admitting "yeah actually, we do lie all the time" over the people who have absolute conviction in their outlandish theories? Sometimes you have to keep the best interests of the nonbelievers in mind too.