• TossedAccount [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I don't care whether it's a bit or not. Jreg is indirectly responsible for allowing fascist ideas to flourish by giving them a platform in his comments sections and by representing them as one of the "quadrants". Most people are too media-illiterate to understand simple satire (just look at all the misplaced hatred for Chapo Trap House, which employs first-order irony on a regular basis), let alone more abstract concepts like meta-irony.

    Cryptofascists not only hide behind liberal formulations of free speech :freeze-peach:, they also have learned to infiltrate chan culture (and by extension meme culture in general) by hiding behind irony, post-irony, and meta-irony to spread their ideas because they recognize liberals and socialists would dogpile them, if not outright deplatform them, for earnestly or straightforwardly expressing their true beliefs and political goals.