Comment on Anon is worried about men
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 1 day agoThat’s…just no. Wtf? No.
Source: I’ve actually listened to women, in person, describe their reasoning, instead of making up my own justification for something like the incel community decided to do.
newfie@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The goal was to increase fear of the “other” - which is a classic right wing tactic.
The bear meme was a conservative astroturfed campaign to push people right - which is why it appeared shortly before the 2024 US elections
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 1 day ago
This is very tinfoil hatty
newfie@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
No it isn’t, it’s literally what astroturfing is and how public relations campaigns are run. I know people who literally do shit like this for a living
Doesn’t mean the original meme was created by an agency necessarily, but it certainly was boosted and amplified by conservatives to spark anger against PoCs/immigrants, and to build resentment amongst men. Which worked wonderfully for Trump, as is evidenced by his strong performance with Gen Z men
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
No, the uniformed idiotic women hating fake rationalization you can see continuing throughout this very thread may have been spread to the Andrew Tate following incel crowd to further stoke their anger. But that’s them capitalizing on their gullibility and refusal to speak to actual women about why they feel that way.
You probably said this thing was STARTED as a racist othering campaign. That’s very different from someone trying to CHANGE an already existing narrative to suit their own ends. And none of those narratives were ever about race, it was always a gender thing.