Due to my repeated failings (only 1 of which can be seen) to explain my reasoning in the edit history for including each of the conspiracy theories i listed in the following quote
“By showing how a conspiracy are manipulating people and events behind the scenes, Alice accidentally feeds much more horrific conspiracy theories such as Ancient Aliens, Antivax, Climate Change Denialism, Genocide Denialism (of various kinds), Operation Terror, Qanon, White Genocide, ect.”
I will be doing so here at the risk of it turning into an Author Tract /diatribe.
If you don’t like that for reasons of content warnings or author tract then you should probably just leave this spoilered.
CW: racism, xenophobia, homophobia, Aphobia, child harm, religious bigotry, child harm, online harassment. (All mildly touched upon)
Ancient Aliens: is 1st on the list and probably the most innocent, thus clearing a bar that i can’t yet seem to lift off the floor. Ancient Aliens holds that aliens had involvement in our ancient history, hence the name. Generally, Ancient Aliens theorists hold that said aliens helped build ancient structures, most notably the pyramids. While not inherently bad, this theory is often used by racists and/or xenophobes to explain away inconvenient facts that might get in the way of their worldview and several of the larger influencers promoting it are bigoted themselves.
Antivax: is next and far, far meaner.The uniting theme of the Antivax community is that vaccines are, variously; hoaxes by pharmaceutical companies to make more money, a way for the government to put tracking chips in us, possessed of a variety of side effects such as causing cancer (unproven) and/or autism (which would require the rewiring of lots of the brain) and/or immoral as [INSERT DIETY HERE] is sending diseases to punish sin and therefore preventing or mitigating diseases is enabling sin.
Climate Change Denialism: Climate change is among the most serious challenges currently facing us and among but a few of our adversaries that could soon lead to the extinction of all life on earth. There are still plenty of people determined to deny its existence and/or severity for various reasons, thus endangering us all.
Genocide Denialism: is vague, encompassing many things yet always failing to encompass morals. The genocide being denied varies, from The Holocaust, to the Native American genocides and so on, with these conspiracy theories helping to excuse bigotry and add more victim cards to said bigots hands.
Now, lets get into Operation Terror,IMO among the more disgusting. There have been several incidents of school shootings in America, generally caused by troubled, radicalised youths who have been given access to firearms and attempt to use them in lethal retaliation on bullies. To Operation Terror, there is only 1 logical conclusion to draw… that the “DeEp StAtE” are faking it all to enact stricter gun control laws, of course. They hold that the video evidence is faked, the people involved are trained actors, the witnesses are being paid off by the “DeEp StAtE” and the government have only not made any moves towards stricter gun control because they’re 2 afraid of Operation Terror. The proponents of Operation Terror are known to harass witnesses and the families of witnesses and/or victims to try and get them to confess to this, causing predictable results on their mental health.
Qanon, regretfully, can be summed up in a single sentence: EvErYbOdYWhODiSaGrEeSWiThTrUmP Is A BlOoDrInKiNgSaTaNiCPeDoPhiLE.
White Genocide holds that all representation in media of ethnic minorities, laws allowing immigration or interracial marriages and so on are part of an elaborate plot to genocide Caucasians. According to said theory, all coloured people to have romantic or sexual relations with white people are merely doing so to keep them from entering “proper” relationships with other white people and thus whittle down the numbers of white people. FYI there are around 3x as many white people as coloured people, to give you a demonstration of how “effective” said conspiracy is. The media representation is generally said to be the start of white erasure. It solely exists to give racists excuses to attack and harass their victims as well as to let homophobes and aphobes feel justified in their bigotry.
Due to my repeated failings (only 1 of which can be seen) to explain my reasoning in the edit history for including each of the conspiracy theories i listed in the following quote
“By showing how a conspiracy are manipulating people and events behind the scenes, Alice accidentally feeds much more horrific conspiracy theories such as Ancient Aliens, Antivax, Climate Change Denialism, Genocide Denialism (of various kinds), Operation Terror, Qanon, White Genocide, ect.”
I will be doing so here at the risk of it turning into an Author Tract /diatribe. If you don’t like that for reasons of content warnings or author tract then you should probably just leave this spoilered. CW: racism, xenophobia, homophobia, Aphobia, child harm, religious bigotry, child harm, online harassment. (All mildly touched upon)- Ancient Aliens: is 1st on the list and probably the most innocent, thus clearing a bar that i can’t yet seem to lift off the floor. Ancient Aliens holds that aliens had involvement in our ancient history, hence the name. Generally, Ancient Aliens theorists hold that said aliens helped build ancient structures, most notably the pyramids. While not inherently bad, this theory is often used by racists and/or xenophobes to explain away inconvenient facts that might get in the way of their worldview and several of the larger influencers promoting it are bigoted themselves.
- Antivax: is next and far, far meaner.The uniting theme of the Antivax community is that vaccines are, variously; hoaxes by pharmaceutical companies to make more money, a way for the government to put tracking chips in us, possessed of a variety of side effects such as causing cancer (unproven) and/or autism (which would require the rewiring of lots of the brain) and/or immoral as [INSERT DIETY HERE] is sending diseases to punish sin and therefore preventing or mitigating diseases is enabling sin.
- Climate Change Denialism: Climate change is among the most serious challenges currently facing us and among but a few of our adversaries that could soon lead to the extinction of all life on earth. There are still plenty of people determined to deny its existence and/or severity for various reasons, thus endangering us all.
- Genocide Denialism: is vague, encompassing many things yet always failing to encompass morals. The genocide being denied varies, from The Holocaust, to the Native American genocides and so on, with these conspiracy theories helping to excuse bigotry and add more victim cards to said bigots hands.
- Now, lets get into Operation Terror, IMO among the more disgusting. There have been several incidents of school shootings in America, generally caused by troubled, radicalised youths who have been given access to firearms and attempt to use them in lethal retaliation on bullies. To Operation Terror, there is only 1 logical conclusion to draw… that the “DeEp StAtE” are faking it all to enact stricter gun control laws, of course. They hold that the video evidence is faked, the people involved are trained actors, the witnesses are being paid off by the “DeEp StAtE” and the government have only not made any moves towards stricter gun control because they’re 2 afraid of Operation Terror. The proponents of Operation Terror are known to harass witnesses and the families of witnesses and/or victims to try and get them to confess to this, causing predictable results on their mental health.
- Qanon, regretfully, can be summed up in a single sentence: EvErYbOdY WhO DiSaGrEeS WiTh TrUmP Is A BlOoDrInKiNg SaTaNiC PeDoPhiLE.
- White Genocide holds that all representation in media of ethnic minorities, laws allowing immigration or interracial marriages and so on are part of an elaborate plot to genocide Caucasians. According to said theory, all coloured people to have romantic or sexual relations with white people are merely doing so to keep them from entering “proper” relationships with other white people and thus whittle down the numbers of white people. FYI there are around 3x as many white people as coloured people, to give you a demonstration of how “effective” said conspiracy is. The media representation is generally said to be the start of white erasure. It solely exists to give racists excuses to attack and harass their victims as well as to let homophobes and aphobes feel justified in their bigotry.
Edited by PKofthelibrary