#infact all my classmates in middle school convinced themselves they were better and more moral than me lmao

[snekdood]

i think some of ya’ll under estimates the JQ’s ability to subtly infect people, esp when they’re not aware of the dogwhistles (most people) 

it starts innocently- you’re a kid or an adult unable to detect manipulation, you pick up a new interest, and then you watch some videos about it, you find a video that somehow suggests there’s a “hidden secret” going on, obviously intriguing, you go on to learn about those secrets. if you watched new age stuff like me, there were a lot of “secrets” about aliens, i thought the aliens were cool and wanted to learn more, but apparently the aliens too are connected to this weird government secret, i try to learn more and essentially leave w the impression i cant trust my govt for shit (but maybe the aliens would save me, and yes i considered all of them bc i didn’t wanna believe all the aliens were just genetically evil) and they probably have child sex rings or something (which is intuitively true to me bc the govt’s fucked and run by christians who would be likely to have child sex rings, given how many priests are pedophiles, and all the ritual stuff seemed like something a christian kkk member would do). that was the only information i had and that’s all i extracted from reading that stuff at 14, and all it did was give me paranoia. i never looked into things further, i never went to those weird forums, but the baseline is already there now. i was more focused on the whole *spirituality* thing in new age beliefs, and the aliens were cool to me and i often doubted if the bad ones were really all that bad. NONE of those websites at the time mentioned ANYTHING about jewish people, i’d also specifically avoid websites that mentioned god w an uppercase g bc i knew they were christians, and christians are my enemy in this, so i knew that christians were trying to co opt “the truth” and inject a different message that was more sinister so i’d avoid literally anything like that. im already a failed and bad candidate for nazis lol bc i failed to apparently digest the final bit that it’s supposed to be *jewish people*, i guess because i wasn’t a christian back then so i didn’t have a hate boner for other abrahamic religions that were different from mine. so i just never got that last bit- but you can see how easy it is to decent into-- and id argue a lot of new age spirituality is a gateway and an entrance to the alt right pipeline and to JQ conspiracy theories. maybe the spirit science guy wasn’t intending to demonize jewish people in his “history of the world” video, but the othering of them doesnt help, acting like they’re a separate alien species that’s just smarter and gooder still isn’t exactly a great narrative bc you’re still dehumanizing them. and im sure for ppl more inclined to believe jewish ppl are evil will digest the thought that jewish people are not human like everyone else and then take it further when they learn about the conspiracy theories. 

anyways, I think acting like everyone who’s fallen into these conspiracy theories or even new age beliefs “should have known better” or “probably knew but didn’t resist it” is pretty unfair when on the outside new age stuff seems pretty fuckin innocent and happy and fun and ✨magical✨ and how, at least back in 2012/2013/etc, hardly any of that stuff mentioned jewish people specifically as being the source of evil, you’re supposed to have some sort of belief before that that leads you to that conclusion and im reeaaalllly leaning on the idea that it’s just being christian and hating other abrahamic religions that are different. 

also to me the freemasons seemed like a cover up for/a nicer looking kkk back in the day when i believed crazy conspiracies, idk, but thats just me 🤷‍♂️ i’ve been pretty staunchly anti christian my whole life so ig that’s where my mind naturally went.