The point isn’t to sway opinion, it’s to amplify existing opinion. The thing about trying to sway someone’s opinion is that you’re expecting them to think. If you want people divided, you want to reinforce their beliefs and paint the opposing side as absurdly as possible.
This kind of post is designed to push all the buttons and slip right under the radar for plausibility, so no critical thinking takes place. That’s why the first top level reply talking about this (the sub thread we’re in now) is like 7 comments down. People believe this shit is real. The ones that take the time to think it out are definitely in the minority and that is fucking terrifying.
This seems grim but you're probably right. It simply works too well and with social media is too easy. My instinct is to think that people's bullshit meters go up at this point more often than not but who even knows anymore.
Non player character. Basically just suggesting that you don't think for yourself, because some people can't handle the concept that not everyone thinks the way they do. They want to think of themselves as the ones who are "le enlightened" and everyone else as mindless idiots. It's a sad, simple, and all too common worldview.
Plenty of people here believe it's real. Many people on Reddit have seen so many of these fake "dumb SJW" posts that there's no longer much limit on what they'll believe is real when it comes to these things. They don't actually know what these sorts of people really act like because the fake versions are more entertaining so they make up most of the examples they see.
It only sounds fake to people who aren't idiots. The alt right laps this stuff up. You could write "I think all boys should be forced into trans surgery at age 5 so they can experience what it's like to live as an oppressed womyn" and they would think it was real feminism.
Why not? The number of nonsense connections it takes to draw all these conclusions is already hard to believe, and then to put it into a very formulaic "demanding sjw" style post with no real qualifiers or anything, is not only very fake, but transparent. By far the more likely explanation is that this person is trying to undermine feminism or "sjws". A lot of people will believe this, combined with some "wouldn't be shocked" types and it just snowballs into rageporn, and for the OP, well, mission accomplished.
I’m just saying I’ve seen dumb shit like this before, so I’m not shocked if someone believed this dumb shit. I’m not trying to undermine feminism lmao. I agree it’s very likely it’s a meme, but it wouldn’t shock me if it was real. And just like any ideology feminism has its extremes, and SOME people in that movement go too far and put out ideas that are unrealistic, overbearing, and very delusional. This happens with EVERY movement, political group, etc.
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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18
They should've done a better job at making it sound less fake, cuz this shit is fake.