You could not pay me to click on this, but the thumbnail is top tier.
I actually bothered to watch the video and I’ll do you a service by summarizing his points as quickly as possible.
Basically the video is him unpacking the whole cultural shift between “(anti)sjw” culture and how it has evolved to be our current clusterfuck of a political climate.
Back in the early 2010s, a bunch of college kids got really into civil rights movements, and the general consensus at the time was these (usually very young, emotional, and inexperienced) people were irrational and hypocritical– people thought they had to walk on eggshells around them, because if you said the wrong thing, it was very easy to upset them. A lot of people do not, in fact, like having their language policed.
So this started a counter movement of “trolling” which aimed to piss these people off as much as possible, and although for many this simply started as a “funny” pass time- over the years people started to unironically believe the offensive dribble they were spewing. Now thats the main reason why our culture has shifted massively to alt-right ideals.
OOP wasn’t really a bigot in the same way many of these people were (I followed him during my very edgy anti-religion teenage phase), he just hated the same dogma that Christians typically had- and over the years he realized it wasn’t the PEOPLE he hated, but the certain traits they exhibited.
And those traits (hypocrisy, easily offended, lack of personality outside of discourse, etc) now are being presented in the alt-right movement. MAGA republicans are now the ones being easily offended by “woke” content. They cannot watch a movie without finding something “woke” to be offended about. Everything they accused “sjws” of being was now them.
I should also mention that the thumbnail is a scene from the british comedy show “That Mitchell and Webb Look” in which the two actors play as WW2 Nazi soldiers- one of which notices the literal skulls on their uniforms, who proceeds to ask “Are we the baddies?”
A brilliant choice for a thumbnail for this subject- because now he and several other people are realizing- yeah, you are exactly what you accused us of being.
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