This strikes me as projection. I'm a descendent of a place the UK colonized and I didn't really see much outpouring of rage when QEII died. Most people just shrugged and went about their days. Similarly, it's probably just a small minority with mental issues that feels the need to spout off and hand their own pet issue on this event. We …
This strikes me as projection. I'm a descendent of a place the UK colonized and I didn't really see much outpouring of rage when QEII died. Most people just shrugged and went about their days. Similarly, it's probably just a small minority with mental issues that feels the need to spout off and hand their own pet issue on this event. We as a society need to get better at tuning out professional agitators.
"I didn't really see much outpouring of rage when QEII died."
Yeah, it wasn't so much the direct reaction to Queen Elizabeth dying, it was the reaction to the reactions. I go into this in more detail in the article itself, but her death became an excuse to argue about "white feminism," cultural appropriation, liberals vs conservatives, racism in a thousand different forms, even trans rights.
What the professional agitators do so often is twist a narrative into whatever pet grievance their audience likes to get mad about. Even if just by saying that "the other side" has it wrong. Of course, this was far less the case offline. But I think it's a mistake to underestimate the influence online discourse has on the world around us.
This strikes me as projection. I'm a descendent of a place the UK colonized and I didn't really see much outpouring of rage when QEII died. Most people just shrugged and went about their days. Similarly, it's probably just a small minority with mental issues that feels the need to spout off and hand their own pet issue on this event. We as a society need to get better at tuning out professional agitators.
"I didn't really see much outpouring of rage when QEII died."
Yeah, it wasn't so much the direct reaction to Queen Elizabeth dying, it was the reaction to the reactions. I go into this in more detail in the article itself, but her death became an excuse to argue about "white feminism," cultural appropriation, liberals vs conservatives, racism in a thousand different forms, even trans rights.
What the professional agitators do so often is twist a narrative into whatever pet grievance their audience likes to get mad about. Even if just by saying that "the other side" has it wrong. Of course, this was far less the case offline. But I think it's a mistake to underestimate the influence online discourse has on the world around us.