• _‌_反いじめ戦隊@ani.social
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    13 hours ago

    Yet, conservatives are fine firing teachers, ruining their budgets, burning books, denying diversity, digressively victimizing, etc. and consent to illiteracy, being conned, and conning others.
    Fanaticism is a choice, and they choose it, every time.
    Maybe calling it willful manufacturing their demise might be closer, but consent they willfully partake.

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      12 hours ago

      That’s a consequence and a symptom, not the cause. The people manufacturing the consent and the one being manipulated into it are different groups of people. One is choosing and consenting, the other ones are more victims than anything else. It doesn’t excuse the heinous shit some of them do or believe, but it explains it.

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        The cause is choosing to be manufactured consent. Choosing that manufacturing is the consequence we keep revisiting. If the ones being manipulated stopped to think “maybe we keep choosing wrong” they wouldn’t be in position where manufacturing consent would exist, they would instead choose to simply collaborate with despots that happen to be corrupt old white men.