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bulletbilltime · 18 days ago

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"Did you hear the stupid bigoted thing this known outrage farmer said? What a stupid thing he said! Let's post it everywhere and make the news 24/7 about that thing and make him the center of attention so more people can see the shitty things he said! There is no downside from giving the stupid bigot more of a platform!"

"What do you mean he is the president now. What do you mean he's the president a 2nd time. Nobody could have predicted this."

#bulletbilltime rambling #ok I promise I won't keep making political posts but this is a sore point for me #we as a people seriously need to start being more critical of the ways in which the world around us is pushing us to be outraged #and especially how we're motivated to share the thing that outraged us #bigots are popular on social media because they get people to share them from being mad at them #I'm just as guilty of this don't get me wrong #but also like... so many of these alt-right grifters are banking on people talking about them #the more ppl talk about them the more reach they have #if you spread their bigotry even in the spirit of dunking on it #you are giving their bigotry a platform and it will reach ppl it couldn't reach before #you are literally helping them break into a new audience #'oh but my audience knows I'm a leftist!' it doesn't matter #every time you share someone's reactionary takes it's one more node on the tree of reach that it has #and it's more likely it will reach the people who are more susceptible to their messaging #dunking posts in water on tumblr is like... a start at least in signaling that the take is bullshit #but idk I feel like we can do better #we do need to discuss and disarm the stupid takes but your clapback meme won't do it.#in fact memes and clapbacks as a whole are a godawful way of educating people #we need proper dialogues not fucking debates #unfortunately on a national level this is probably not gonna change bc the news love their controversial topics. it gets views.#so we need to at least start refusing to platform them in our own spaces at the very least #just. stop sharing the bigot. you'll live.#AND FOR FUCK'S SAKE DON'T TURN THEIR RACISM INTO A FUCKING MEME #yes this is about the haitian quote. yes if you are non-haitian and made jokes about haitians eating cats or dogs you did racism.#it isn't okay just bc you did it ironically #AND YOU ARE PLATFORMING RACISM ANYWAY SO WHAT THE FUCK #I am going to grab all of you fuckers and shake you around like snowglobes until you get this through your thick skulls #the post is stored in the tags #I hope social media explodes

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