THE classic example of why internet freak show juvenalia can go real bad, especially on a long term scale.
There are very fundamental flaws with the idea that some people have done things that make them acceptable targets for random people's aggression. Best case scenario, a dozen different people deciding to take their frustrations out on them for personal satisfaction similtaneously ends up going nowhere. Worst case scenario, you get...eh...this. Some people shouldn't be paid much mind, and that's for the good of everyone involved. (Or anyone who could possibly be involved.)
In more of a political theory sense, a core precept of right wing culture is the idea that there are "acceptable targets" that society at large needs protection from. They'll often point at people they think "deserve it" as justification for their own existence and propagation, out of a stated fear that if they were to become normalized society would be significantly marred. Often times these acceptable targets are unsympathetic characters who've done something wrong and the scorn they draw from conservative elements can come off as very intuitive to a uninitiated passerby: Ultimately, their existence and the antisocial tendencies right-aligned actors see them as embodying are used as a "trojan horse" of sorts to attack anyone who even be characterized as having anything in common with them. With lolcows as examples to point to, the right and those that feed into the right have ammo to turn against anyone too visibly autistic, too visibly gay-coded, too visibly trans, kind of a "loser", or ultimately just a bit too geeky in general. There's a broader critique of conservative fixation on "D*generacy" to be made here.
THE classic example of why internet freak show juvenalia can go real bad, especially on a long term scale.
There are very fundamental flaws with the idea that some people have done things that make them acceptable targets for random people's aggression. Best case scenario, a dozen different people deciding to take their frustrations out on them for personal satisfaction similtaneously ends up going nowhere. Worst case scenario, you get...eh...this. Some people shouldn't be paid much mind, and that's for the good of everyone involved. (Or anyone who could possibly be involved.)
In more of a political theory sense, a core precept of right wing culture is the idea that there are "acceptable targets" that society at large needs protection from. They'll often point at people they think "deserve it" as justification for their own existence and propagation, out of a stated fear that if they were to become normalized society would be significantly marred. Often times these acceptable targets are unsympathetic characters who've done something wrong and the scorn they draw from conservative elements can come off as very intuitive to a uninitiated passerby: Ultimately, their existence and the antisocial tendencies right-aligned actors see them as embodying are used as a "trojan horse" of sorts to attack anyone who even be characterized as having anything in common with them. With lolcows as examples to point to, the right and those that feed into the right have ammo to turn against anyone too visibly autistic, too visibly gay-coded, too visibly trans, kind of a "loser", or ultimately just a bit too geeky in general. There's a broader critique of conservative fixation on "D*generacy" to be made here.