MrCappadocia #fundie reddit.com

The strength of the Social Justice Authoritarian message lies not in the message itself but in its delivery.

Social Justice Authoritarians deliver their ideology only via positions of power. They do so in college classrooms from Professors who can destroy students. They do so via Videos that are advertised widely with comments banned. They do so where they can control the moderation of the commentary. They do so via outlets that don't seem as though they are Social Justice Information Portals at first glance.

Consider the Cracked.Com model. They publish articles with a strong Social Justice Authoritarian bias. If you protest this bias (or their belief structure) in the forums they provide they ban you or sanction your comments. So this attracts an ever growing mass of people who think largely the same way.

But they don't ban people from the comments section so much. Here's why: A forum post, overall gets significantly more exposure than a single comment post. This means that the "mass" of SJA can target individual comments (as they are a group) and downvote and demoralize opposition thinkers who are never afforded the same kind of platform the Authoritarians themselves are.

All the while, Cracked, operating as a "humor" magazine isn't recognized as a platform for propaganda. It has a stable of writers that agree with the ideology, and it gives those writers a massive platform to disseminate that ideology under the guise of "humor".

They took their evil, hateful pill and coated it with sugar and innocuous jokes. Remember, these aren't simply "true believers". They're college educated, intelligent and they've had decades to refine their tools.

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