It was a mindset born of a bunch of faulty assumptions. One of the biggest was "they just want attention, deny them of it and they will shrivel and die."
Which works on children, and even clickbait advertisers, so it was a valid first thought but that was obviously not going to work on people with huge mysterious backings nor people with massive fanbases of soybois who'd throw money at them for saying anything.
But people clung to it because it allowed them to not have to work, to avoid any responsibility, and morally justify "ignore it until it blows over" laziness.
Exactly. I used to read left wing news everyday. It was clear they hated me for being male and Christian and looked down on me for being black. I find it hard to believe it wasn't purposeful ignorance on the part of the GG crowd to avoid addressing the left
Of course it was purposeful. Most of GG was Leftists, they bragged about it constantly. All the beliefs and problems of the Left that led to us being where we are were things they supported and believed in, but it was being "abused" by "far left extremists" and hurting them so it was bad right now.
It was a mindset born of a bunch of faulty assumptions. One of the biggest was "they just want attention, deny them of it and they will shrivel and die."
Which works on children, and even clickbait advertisers, so it was a valid first thought but that was obviously not going to work on people with huge mysterious backings nor people with massive fanbases of soybois who'd throw money at them for saying anything.
But people clung to it because it allowed them to not have to work, to avoid any responsibility, and morally justify "ignore it until it blows over" laziness.
Exactly. I used to read left wing news everyday. It was clear they hated me for being male and Christian and looked down on me for being black. I find it hard to believe it wasn't purposeful ignorance on the part of the GG crowd to avoid addressing the left
Of course it was purposeful. Most of GG was Leftists, they bragged about it constantly. All the beliefs and problems of the Left that led to us being where we are were things they supported and believed in, but it was being "abused" by "far left extremists" and hurting them so it was bad right now.