CW: similar topics to qanon
Been thinking about this a bunch off and on the last month or so.
We wound up with real life blue maga hats even worse than any of us imagined they could be, let's meme blue Q into existence.
Russiagate == pizzagate, obviously. But where does it go from there? Started brainstorming this in the dunk tank but it deserves its own thread.
People, organized abuse is a real thing and a lot of these examples are really close but also not extremely accurate motionings towards real and documented atrocities. Can we like, take 15 minutes and think about how actual survivors of Catholic Church linked genocide and pedophilia might feel about this and how it is extremely hard for people with these trauma backgrounds to speak out? Also trafficking victims/survivors exist and our part of our communities, often not talking about what happened.
I signed up for a webinar on how Qanon is impacting the fight against real child trafficking and it has done A LOT of damage. I can't know and don't have the right to demand knowledge of the histories of people posting here but I'm really getting a sense that most of these replies aren't from people who have experienced or know someone who has personally experienced any of these things.
Chapo and even the non dirt bag left actually have a lot of work to do in making our communities safer and more comfortable/enjoyable for trafficking survivors (both labor and sexual though these are not inherently exclusive categories) Qanon is something that was actually extremely distressing and difficult for many survivors and those who are less politically savvy sometimes even mistook Qanon followers as safe people. (This might seem silly but try to have empathy for people who aren't interested in politics and have severe disenfranchisement and lack proper supportive community.)
Though we'll intended, I am really urging caution around this idea.
I doubt I'm doing anything more on this after posting the thread but at the very least it needs a CW, good point
So like, here's the problem- A lot of leftists kinda just...shrug when they hear about real organized abuse. There is a culture of apathy around it. The issue is more about the fact that people seem to be so completely out of touch with survivors in the first place as opposed to people just needing a CW