I mean, can you point out what effects they are having? When people are having discussions about noting them? Because I spend a lot of time here and literally only see anything come up when Imp is involved, and I can understand him developing a troll brigade. This ConPro thing seems more like a paranoid delusion than a tangible fear.
No, their greatest tool is unrelenting persistence and collective aggression
I'm only speaking from my own experience. I spent over a decade on 4chan without developing much stormfaggotry despite it being constant. I only began to soften on them by being exposed to those trying to combat them. Because those combatants always look like actual idiots both in terms of "just stop noticing, lalalala I can't hear you" disregarding of credible data and being obsessed with combating it to a point of absurdity.
And not just random people. People's whose intelligence I know and respect who were suddenly debating at a grade schooler level simply because of the topic at hand. Like, everything you just accused them of I see more in the pro-semite category than most of the anti-semites here.
Especially the repetition and maliciousness. It could all be a ploy to use respectability politics to gain a better image, but that just raises the question of why engage with them while looking that ugly? If they are going to act like that, you should expect to need to maintain yourself.
I mean, can you point out what effects they are having? When people are having discussions about noting them? Because I spend a lot of time here and literally only see anything come up when Imp is involved, and I can understand him developing a troll brigade. This ConPro thing seems more like a paranoid delusion than a tangible fear.
I'm only speaking from my own experience. I spent over a decade on 4chan without developing much stormfaggotry despite it being constant. I only began to soften on them by being exposed to those trying to combat them. Because those combatants always look like actual idiots both in terms of "just stop noticing, lalalala I can't hear you" disregarding of credible data and being obsessed with combating it to a point of absurdity.
And not just random people. People's whose intelligence I know and respect who were suddenly debating at a grade schooler level simply because of the topic at hand. Like, everything you just accused them of I see more in the pro-semite category than most of the anti-semites here.
Especially the repetition and maliciousness. It could all be a ploy to use respectability politics to gain a better image, but that just raises the question of why engage with them while looking that ugly? If they are going to act like that, you should expect to need to maintain yourself.