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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
morachbeag@aus.social wrote:
Yeah, I don't buy the idea that bigotry comes from a fear that fuels hate.
Cause if you know, you know that not all these fuckers are afraid.
They're enabled.
The yt supremacist systems we live in enable em. From the politicians to their peer groups to the sorts of ppl who are all "Oh, I don't agree with everything these fascists say, but something must be done about the [insert group here]" to those who see evil committed every day and pretend it ain't happening *even when they outnumber the perpetrator*.
Oh, you can *make* em fear.
And that tends to shut em up.
Whether verbally or ehh y'know.
It don't "win hearts and minds" but honestly, they ain't got the sorts of hearts and minds I particularly feel obligated to be concerned about. Cause they don't give a fuck about anybody outside their narrow approved demographic or their safety. And they can always not be fascists.
I mean, if they were that frightened, why do you see all these yt men casually tossing around slurs?
Why do you get all these yt women gettin in Black womens' faces (and that ain't the half of it) at checkout counters and screamin racism at em?
Do they look frightened to you?
Well, maybe when the poor, harrassed, tired, fed up and fuckin righteously and undersandably *furious* cashier goes "You know what? Fuck this job, fuck the potential lawsuit, fuck the cops, and especially fuck this racist, my service job is now to serve you both sets of knuckles" vaults the counter and takes the damn swing *they've been afraid to take cause these systems are on the yt person's side*.
But up to that point, the racist looks confident and enabled as hell. You know. All fuckin swagger.
These bigots are not afraid.
They have society on their side.
They have enforcement on their side.
Judiciary - on their side
Legislators - on their side.
The public - either directly or indirectly for the most part, on their side.
So this happy thought of "Oh, they're just hating out of fear" I don't buy it.
The bit where they start to fear is the bit where they run and hide.
That's the bit where they shut up. That's the bit where they stop screaming abuse or threatening, or assaulting.
And It don't stop the core issues.
Not unless the bigot changes their mind fully. Which is something they gotta work on. If they choose to do so.
And not unless these systems are overthrown.
But shit, it's gonna be a long fuckin wait, and you get 1 bigot on a bus harassing 1 marginalised person and 48 other ppl just sittin around actin like it ain't happening, that'll get treated as assent.
Cause they view it as the default.
They see who's in charge, who puts em there, what it's built on.
Conversely, if them 48 other ppl go "Fuck you" and chase em off the bus...
The fear ain't the problem.
The ongoing support of a bigoted society towards bigots is.