I don't buy it anymore. This is not exactly equivalent, but similar to the motte-and-bailey shit they are pulling when advocating for other extreme positions. Maybe someone smarter than me knows a word for it.
Every small tongue-in-cheek joke on the right is a dog whistle for people who in reality want to implement the fourth reich. On the other side it was of course irony, sarcasm, obvious humor, when the backlash becomes to great.
"Don't you get a joke? It is really about teaching love and tolerance. How can you be against teaching kids about love and tolerance (and Grindr)?" These people are not stupid. This is a calculated provocation, and they know it.
Good to see that they are still unable not to gloat, though.
I've been considering this a lot recently: hate is now a forbidden emotion. This is the groundwork of emotional manipulation (perhaps even abuse). The implication is that experiencing this emotion is a sin and must be avoided at all costs. The why is in the face of their words, believing that hatred is the devil of emotion - as if no wrong action may be performed in absence of hatred.
I don't know the big brain term for this, though.
If I ever bothered to talk to such people, I might try explaining the value of hatred to them, just to see how they react. Having their premise rejected is not what they're expecting - they're expecting you to argue on their grounds by associating a particular emotion with an unrelated idea. It's almost as if they need you to do this to upkeep their own dogma.
Am I the only one here who was NOT offended by the song?
They sang roughly :
“we’re coming for your children…. to teach them not to hate”
completely smug and based on the false premise that queer agenda is not rooted in hate.
But - they did NOT say they would convert anybody to being gay or have any kind of sexual relationships
I don't buy it anymore. This is not exactly equivalent, but similar to the motte-and-bailey shit they are pulling when advocating for other extreme positions. Maybe someone smarter than me knows a word for it.
Every small tongue-in-cheek joke on the right is a dog whistle for people who in reality want to implement the fourth reich. On the other side it was of course irony, sarcasm, obvious humor, when the backlash becomes to great.
"Don't you get a joke? It is really about teaching love and tolerance. How can you be against teaching kids about love and tolerance (and Grindr)?" These people are not stupid. This is a calculated provocation, and they know it.
Good to see that they are still unable not to gloat, though.
I've been considering this a lot recently: hate is now a forbidden emotion. This is the groundwork of emotional manipulation (perhaps even abuse). The implication is that experiencing this emotion is a sin and must be avoided at all costs. The why is in the face of their words, believing that hatred is the devil of emotion - as if no wrong action may be performed in absence of hatred.
I don't know the big brain term for this, though.
If I ever bothered to talk to such people, I might try explaining the value of hatred to them, just to see how they react. Having their premise rejected is not what they're expecting - they're expecting you to argue on their grounds by associating a particular emotion with an unrelated idea. It's almost as if they need you to do this to upkeep their own dogma.
From the left's paradigm, you're totally aloud to hate people with the wrong opinions, who vote the wrong way, or have the wrong sex or skin color.
Though, to be fair to your premise, they don't qualify any of that as hate.
Your hate is evil and wrong, our hate is the normal actions of righteous people