The "I'm not X but..." tactic is for dealing with normies who have been told by their TVs that if you do Y then you must automatically do X.
And it doesn't work any more. The wheels fell off the "I'm not X but..." train nearly TEN YEARS AGO and non-leftist millennials are still going around using it like it's still 1999.
And it doesn't work any more. The wheels fell off the "I'm not X but..." train nearly TEN YEARS AGO and non-leftist millennials are still going around using it like it's still 1999.