But what I got was dogpiled by a gang of self-righteous bullies. Parroting a bunch of thought-terminating clichés, and hurling bullshit accusations that had nothing to do with anything I actually said, or anything I've ever said, here or anywhere.

Life is too short to deal with that kind of networked idiocy. So I'm going to say this once, to anyone who thinks this is an acceptable way to carry on.

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What if it was someone you care about, who you knew as a perfectly lovely person before they started hanging out on that dodgy gaming forum, or wherever they picked up the bigotry brainworms? What if it was your best friend since school, your sibling, your parent, your *child*?

Maybe then you'd think twice about whether it's good advice to tar and feather other human beings as bigots, and deny them all social contact with anyone not also pegged as a bigot?

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If not maybe you're a fucking sociopath? Maybe you need to take a long, hard look in the mirror, and think deeply about Nietzsche's famous quote about fighting monsters.

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/112782360387794556

Maybe you need to seriously consider the possibility that you're in a cult? Telling people to cut off longstanding relationships with people who don't share the group ideology is what cults do. Because maintaining old relationships is how you keep perspective, and avoid getting sucked into cults.

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Frances Lee wrote about being excommunicated from the "church of social justice" (see the link here https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/110789459980665321). Lee was being polite, but let's call a spade a spade; what she's describing in her pieces on this topic is a cult. A 21st century networked cult, not mindslaves in a compound, but a cult all the same.

A cult that I refuse to conform to, or make any excuses for, just became it's ideology is a twisted parody of leftist and pro-diversity ideas I deeply believe in.

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The identi-moonie cult has nothing to do with real world anti-bigotry or social justice work. It's the opposite; a crucial part of the conservative-to-fascist pipeline. So I say this to the cult members and their apologists and appeasers;

Stay out of my mentions with this bullshit. Or by all that is holy, I will verbally tear you several new arseholes. I will unleash all my fury with the Useful Idiots of the world on you, and I will enjoy every minute of it.

You have been warned.

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@strypey A cult has to be a group first and foremost.
I think what you are describing is more of a phenomenon of reply-guys who are angry because something reminds them of something they only recently deconstructed about their own indoctrinated assholness.

Behind it though, there is a big question of what you socially do with latently violent privileged bigots as other privileged non-targets of said latent violence. Can't bring them along into any safe/public spaces, that's for sure.

Only societal future I can see there is to allow them to stay in virtual violence simulators until they are emotionally ready for the real world.

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@KarlHeinzHasliP
> A cult has to be a group first and foremost

Who decided that? More importantly, how are you defining "group" here?

> I think what you are describing is more of a phenomenon of reply-guys

It's certainly that, but the 2 aren't mutually exclusive.

@KarlHeinzHasliP you didn't answer the second part of the question, which was the more important one, and all this definition-lawyering is kind of missing the point. Don't you think?

A church is definitely a group, usually based around a specific building. But I don't remember this being what people objected to when Frances Lee wrote about the "church of social justice".