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  • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Trolls, bots, NPC’s, ai, it’s all the exact same attack - “this isn’t a real person so I don’t have to deal with their argument.” It’s a thought terminating cliche so they don’t have to deal with the cognitive dissonance.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      By default I just assume that people with predictable and exhausting cliches are just indoctrinated that thoroughly, and are still people.

      The most blatant example of that is how many my-hero glazers, going back at least a decade, will say almost word for word “but humans must become an interplanetary species” to run interference for whatever environmental devastation, resource plundering, or worker abusing skullduggery their savior of humanity was up to today.

    • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      if i’m being completely honest i tell this to myself when i read something reactionary or hateful … it helps to believe that they’re a Koch bot or that they’re being paid by rich assholes. maybe that’s not something i should do?

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        People are quite capable of bigotry, hate, and ignorance.

        It arguably makes us more vulnerable to bad people if we assume bad people simply don’t exist.