• @Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    it started as a farce, but those who actually thought that way didn’t understand it was a joke on them, and soon it was just people who unironically believed this way. If you act like something stupid, even in a manner to make fun of them, you will attract them. If you don’t cut that shit out like a malignant tumor, it won’t be long until that tumor takes over.

    • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      610 days ago

      There’s also an element of if you keep acting a certain way it starts to infect how you think as seen above. Some of those people essentially trained themselves to be massive racists

      • @Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
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        510 days ago

        oh yes def true. I have watched people I know have memes, jokes, etc on 4chan and other online spaces slowly twist them into racist right wingers over the course of 5ish years

        a couple have since been deprogramming, but a couple are like flat-earther level lost