My friend's ex wife was really into organic food and healing crystals and now thinks the Holocaust was a hoax.
I've seen extremely deranged takes from the "spiritualist" community. Apparently according to some holocaust victims ackschkly wanted that to happen because that's what they chose as their "soul plan" before they reincarnated in that body.
the QAA pod covers this a bit. IMO, its because it starts you off with the idea of "pureness" and then without any actual definition it snowballs into "kill the jews" through crystal magic and non-GMO food
There's probably a lot to be said about how terfs are a huge part of the pipeline
Yeah I remember reading that there is like an article post on Radix journal (the alt right publication site) called "terf to alt-right dissident" which basically details how they can use terf rhetoric to turn white women into neonazis
I've only known one woman who became fascist through the internet and her path went like this: motivational quotes, self-help, the secret, astrology, medical conspiracy theories, antivaccination, child kidnapping panics, that whole furniture conspiracy about selling children in cabinets, and now she's some kind of Christian nationalist who believes abortions cause breast cancer
The function of all conspiracy theories isn't to engender skepticism, rather it's to mystify mundane explanations. Leftism offers otherwise very mundane explanations for why things are this way. It's because of class dominance, capitalism, imperialism, and the enforcement of violence to protect those things. It's the job of a conspiracy theory to step in front of those explanations and instead offer secret technologies, UFO landings, reptile people, etc.
Leftism is the opposite of conspiracy theories, because we don't believe the problems come from anything secret. The problems are caused right in front of us through things in our daily lives.
Maybe some conspiracy theories could be channeled leftwards, but I've never seen it happen. They always turn into reactionary slime.
Michael Parenti - Conspiracy and Class Power
Conspiracies happen, every casus belli the US has used in the last 70 years has been the result of a conspiracy. Experimenting on the people of the Bikini Atoll was a conspiracy. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was a conspiracy. COINTELPRO was a conspiracy.
Acting like it's either a conspiracy or the result of systems is a false dichotomy.
When someone mentions the term "conspiracy," I ask if they mean lizardmen mind controlling us from inside a hollow earth or stuff the CIA has flat-out admitted.
I consider the term "conspiracy theory" so ideologically charged that it's basically useless. As far as I can tell, most people's definition of "conspiracy theory" is "a thing that some people believe that I think is weird" instead of "theory about people coming together to do something nefarious for personal gain."
We need to talk about the Horse to Hitler pipeline. It's real and it's consuming white women everywhere.
You laugh, but some incels say that white women ride horses to get off and not to date women who ride horses lol
Oh! There’s a few that I’ve noticed online especially I can explain more if needed. -girlboss>sexpositive>tradwife>alt-right -wellness>crunchy>antivax>alt-right. -yoga>spiritual>conspiracies>alt-right.
-online feminist> sexpositive>gendercritical>alt-right
-not like other girls>tradwife which is a weird one there’s probably more but i’m at work and these are off the top of my head.
Honestly it's gold
i think it's not just specifically vaccine discourse, but Q anon and american conspiracy culture in general. it's EXPLODED in popularity among women since the beginning of 2020, worming bizarre american fascist ideas into their brains under the guise of it being about protecting children. i think that's the 'pipeline' for women-- conspiracy culture, with its world-view altering brainworm capabilities that have essentially turned it into a religion. what used to be confined to just white nationalists and dudes who read Soldier of Fortune magazine is now widespread among the american public
My sample size of one says anti-vaxx as well but also lumpen resentment towards the polite liberal institutions that treated her like dirt for all of her life. Unlike all the teachers and bureaucrats the fash doesn't tell her that she's stupid or deficient.
Aren't alt-right women mostly white? In their case at least, I figure it's something about recognizing (consciously or subconsciously) some of the privilege they have in being white, and thinking that will slip away if they don't preserve white supremacist culture and institutions.
Growing up homeschooled or in a rural environment, religious upbringing, gamer, heavily online, radical feminism that borders into terfism right before making the full leap. Girlboss types tend to be more liberal from what I've seen. Don't see as many of them jumping entirely into the alt-right.
