I wouldn't worry as much about this part tbh. I have a theory that this kind of motive is often fake; they say things like this just to create more tension and discourse ("platforming hate" etc) once the story breaks, and confusion around the actual motives.
Think about it: if the goal is to get media attention, they would have to be morons to think this heinous shit would do anything but make hundreds of normal people cheer for their mass arrests/deaths. So even if it is an attention-seeking tactic, the only possible outcome is the shit-eating spiral of failure they deserve.
I think that's often the case, but I think /b/ and its descendants' attacks on trans people may be a special case.
I grew up with a self-professed /b/[slur] (I was raised to be a cryptofash chudlet, it just didn't take), and the impression I got from his bragging was that first and foremost, they want trans people to feel their hostility. They're under the willful delusion that all trans people are suicidal, because they deliberately misrepresent statistics about the wellbeing of trans people who are rejected by their loved ones to portray their pain as intrinsic to being trans.
It's why they hate 'safe spaces'. They think that if they can make trans people feel hated at all times with no respite, they'll force them to detransition or, as is their main goal, worse. It's sort of like persistence hunting applied to psychological violence I guess.
Personally, I think the thing to do on normal news sites would be to report only about 1/3 of the details that Daily Dot did here. It's important for many readers to know that a social DDoS is being carried out against the Trevor Project, for purposes of knowing why the wait time is long and directing resources to the Trevor Project. I don't think general-purpose news sites need to include paragraphs of quotes from those nazis, though. I think that may do more for their recruitment than for turning the public against them, because libs will always conclude that 'there are fringe monsters on Both Sides™'
Anyway, apologies for writing a dang book about it. It's on my mind a lot
I wouldn't worry as much about this part tbh. I have a theory that this kind of motive is often fake; they say things like this just to create more tension and discourse ("platforming hate" etc) once the story breaks, and confusion around the actual motives.
Think about it: if the goal is to get media attention, they would have to be morons to think this heinous shit would do anything but make hundreds of normal people cheer for their mass arrests/deaths. So even if it is an attention-seeking tactic, the only possible outcome is the shit-eating spiral of failure they deserve.
I think that's often the case, but I think /b/ and its descendants' attacks on trans people may be a special case.
I grew up with a self-professed /b/[slur] (I was raised to be a cryptofash chudlet, it just didn't take), and the impression I got from his bragging was that first and foremost, they want trans people to feel their hostility. They're under the willful delusion that all trans people are suicidal, because they deliberately misrepresent statistics about the wellbeing of trans people who are rejected by their loved ones to portray their pain as intrinsic to being trans.
It's why they hate 'safe spaces'. They think that if they can make trans people feel hated at all times with no respite, they'll force them to detransition or, as is their main goal, worse. It's sort of like persistence hunting applied to psychological violence I guess.
Personally, I think the thing to do on normal news sites would be to report only about 1/3 of the details that Daily Dot did here. It's important for many readers to know that a social DDoS is being carried out against the Trevor Project, for purposes of knowing why the wait time is long and directing resources to the Trevor Project. I don't think general-purpose news sites need to include paragraphs of quotes from those nazis, though. I think that may do more for their recruitment than for turning the public against them, because libs will always conclude that 'there are fringe monsters on Both Sides™'
Anyway, apologies for writing a dang book about it. It's on my mind a lot