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What I really hate is the weaponization of victimhood. Most frequently, you will read about this as "cancel culture", but it goes deeper - IMO. You have obsessi
by TrackerFF 3y ago
What I really hate is the weaponization of victimhood. Most frequently, you will read about this as "cancel culture", but it goes deeper - IMO. You have obsessive (and terminally online) people that will literally trawl through every public post / tweet / statement / etc. a celebrity has made in their lifetime, and check if there's anything that clashes against their own agendas.
Then, if they find something, they will start a crusade. The problem is that these people live in echo-chambers that are strictly moderated, and will just end up inciting the other extremists.
All of a sudden it sounds like there's a "movement", because these people are spending all day and night sharing links and cross-posting on every relevant forum or social media available. I regularly see this kind of brigading coming from all different kinds of groups - the other day I was reading a local news article regarding the avian flu that's ravaging Europe, and sure enough, a couple of hundred trolls started brigading the comment section with "It's 5G/chemtrails/COVID vaccine/Ukraine/etc." conspiracy takes.