Twitter Satire: It's Not Racist When We Do IT

fiasco360

fiasco360

Kingfisher
Orthodox
Brother Abdul Majeed said:
This tit-for-tat technique doesn't pay dividends at all.

Feminists and race-baiters know exactly how hypocritical they are. They exult in it. They gleefully wait for reactions like this so they can come out with the "male tears" and "fragile white" response.

Ignoring their nonsense is the best strategy. The opposite of love isn't hate, it's apathy.
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I don't know if this is exactly the best strategy overall.

Some of these people are so deluded they don't know they are being hypocritical. They have off-the-wall rationalizations for their thinking. This leaks into the mainstream and the useful idiots go "Yeah racism!"

The point of fighting back isn't because it's going to somehow convert them to your side but it's to win allies who were previously scared, confused or only exposed to one side.

We have completely ignored them for many years and we have reaped those "benefits." Look at the republicucks who got destroyed on accusation alone.

It's at least somewhat acceptable in the last few years to fight this nonsense with something resembling logic and reason - where as before you risked losing your livelihood for being racist or sexist (still happens but people are fighting back now.)

Regardless Twitter is mostly a trash can anyway.
 
Alsos

Alsos

Kingfisher
This is not who we are.

We're better than this.

We shouldn't stoop to their level.

Ignoring it is the right way to go.

It's childish and intellectually dishonest.

It's wasting time better spent writing white papers and strongly-worded letters to the editor.

This Buckleyite propriety is the other part of what we've been doing for the past thirty years that hasn't worked.

As with any form of bullying, what does work is punching back - in this case metaphorically, humiliating them by holding up their own words as indictments of their hypocrisy for everyone to see. No, the leftist thus exposed will not feel shame over their remarks, but given how obsessed they are at a fundamental psychological level with social acceptance and being part of the in-group, making sport of them and inspiring others to laugh at or shun them can be viscerally traumatic because of the outgrouping threat it represents.

It's also effective on the other side of the field. One of their own strategists famously observed that what works in activism is what your people enjoy doing. It's impishly fun to do and read this stuff, and especially to see the reactions to it.

ETA: That said, the tweets themselves aren't nearly as funny or provocative as they could be. Or ought to be for this purpose.
 
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