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I see people on Mastodon gleefully sharing this, saying it's the "new Lenna", and mocking the people in this thread who are "upset".

I don't think people are mad because of what it says about Spencer, they are annoyed because of what it says about the maker.

The politically opposite equivalent would be using a video of, say, black-on-white crime as a test case, or maybe a video mocking George Floyd as a drug addict and celebrating his death-by-fentanyl, and I'm pretty sure that would result in a lot more outrage than this.

Russel conjugation: "I am subverting their silly ideas. You are being confrontational. They are insulting our most deeply held values."




Yeah and the opposite politics are bad, actually.


If you don't defend freedom of speech for people who disagree with you, _you_ are the "opposite politics".

Mass race hysteria, in the middle of a supposedly deadly pandemic, but it was okay because BLM.

Meanwhile these same people said nothing when police executed a man in his own home here in Belgium.

It's all performative bullshit, and anyone cheering this on reveals themselves for the herd animal they are.

If all you can do is flag the opposing argument out of visibility you're admitting to being both cowardly and dumb.




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