I do sometimes wonder how effective this is. Before the rise of openly fascist influencers and things like 4chan, I would have laughed and told the Angry White Men trying this something like “the 1950s called and want their Red Scare back”.
But these red-pillers have done a lot to conflate POC, non-xtians, feminists, LGBTQ, and liberals with “communists” and advocate for the likes of fascists like Pinochet (who “did nothing wrong”) and giving “communists” “free helicopter rides” and I do wonder. Especially when it comes to that cyclical theory of the rise of authoritarian terror.
The young people falling into the brosphere/redpill thing probably have zero historical context and are just going to generally be utterly clueless about the dangers of what they are falling in with…they might think they’ll get to be ones conducting violence on others in the name of “fighting communism”, but they probably don’t realize that these things tend to get very ugly, even for the people perpetrating the violence, even if they are complete psychopaths that only care about themselves. Eventually, there are not enough “outsiders”, and you have to invent more…and even the “good” psychopaths might find themselves on the other end of that gun…
I do sometimes wonder how effective this is. Before the rise of openly fascist influencers and things like 4chan, I would have laughed and told the Angry White Men trying this something like “the 1950s called and want their Red Scare back”.
But these red-pillers have done a lot to conflate POC, non-xtians, feminists, LGBTQ, and liberals with “communists” and advocate for the likes of fascists like Pinochet (who “did nothing wrong”) and giving “communists” “free helicopter rides” and I do wonder. Especially when it comes to that cyclical theory of the rise of authoritarian terror.
The young people falling into the brosphere/redpill thing probably have zero historical context and are just going to generally be utterly clueless about the dangers of what they are falling in with…they might think they’ll get to be ones conducting violence on others in the name of “fighting communism”, but they probably don’t realize that these things tend to get very ugly, even for the people perpetrating the violence, even if they are complete psychopaths that only care about themselves. Eventually, there are not enough “outsiders”, and you have to invent more…and even the “good” psychopaths might find themselves on the other end of that gun…