What are the go-to subjects for revealing the true, regressive beliefs of reactionaries who don't consider themselves reactionary? Off the top of my head:
-Trans people in sports: Major gateway to transphobia and misogyny. Complaints about trans athletes inevitably lead to sexism towards literally any woman with muscles. Pretty sure this is how Joe Rogan and a ton of his supporters became so unhinged.
-Affirmative action: So, so many liberals and "leftists" will complain about how they would've totally gotten into Harvard and Yale if not for The Blackstm. Love to bring up SAT scores even though they've been proven to be racist and classist and a shit metric for intellectual value.
-Shakespeare authorship question: A bit niche. Basically, Curtis Yarvin and other Dark Enlightenment dweebs don't think that Shakespeare was capable of penning such timeless plays because he wasn't rich, and according to them, not rich=dumb and uncreative mental husk.
IME transphobia really outs them. I'm not trans or anything but basically any new troll showing up to ruin a community just can't keep resist parroting one of the far right talking points or has truckloads of them in their history. Another I've noticed is a user whose kind of sus but their post history is almost 100% sports subreddits.
The sports thing is real. If somebody makes supporting a football team the most prominent part of their identity they're almost always aggressive chuds.
That's not really true, there are plenty of gay footfall/soccer fans
plenty of reactionary LGBT and LGBT-appropriating individuals, too
or porn. if they've commented on porn even once 100% chance they're reactionary.
I like football and have commented on porn
I mean certainly those who defend it but people who are critically of it may or may not be (ethical reasons vs religious etc etc)
not "porn debate" subs, but subs of porn content. I forgot to mention this in addition to sports, but less common I've noticed people using their horny account to troll. Their entire post history is comments on pics of naked ladies or naked Japanese cartoon characters.
Ah, I see. It makes sense as perverts generally aren’t great people and great people generally aren’t reactionaries
it's less that and more the intersection with incela/MRAs
Ah, you mean those who look at it from the perspective of the viewer and the effects on them and ignore the exploited workers in it?
no no, that's why it attracts a reactionary crowd. the dehumanization and commoditization of human bodies is the perk for them. the people posting about it online are just telling on themselves.