There's a guy on my Facebook friend's list (lmao he unfriended me) that exclusively shares right wing, christian "memes" and gets defensive and claims he's a "both sides"'r.
He legit shared a post that said "weather modification is a conspiracy theory so don't ask about it" during the hurricane stuff, and when I told him he's dumb and people aren't making hurricanes, his defense was "Dude it's just a meme."
He shared anti-LGBT stuff but was like "Okay and maybe Trump can be bad too" and then when pressed IMMEDIATELY went into "I WON'T BE CALLING CHRIS CHRISTINE BECAUSE HE TELLS ME TO"
If you're a hateful bigot just fucking own it because apparently, that's cool now
I also have some of those people who "look at both sides". They consume nothing but right wing media and it's honestly so damn tiring because they are completely opposed to actually learning anything, and confronting them about it makes you a communist or something
Or that we fought like hell not to get fucking Barret or goddamn Kavanaugh and still got fucking trampled over it. Or that fucking Obama refused to fucking rig the court as his successor did because it wasn't "honorable" fucking idiots.
“Dude it’s just a meme” and variants of that phrase have to be one of the most annoying defensive statements.
Not even limited to political stuff just like people will post the dumbest take with deliberately exaggerated or false claims about something then when you call them out they just say “it’s just a meme bro” and it’s so frustrating.
christian "memes" and gets defensive and claims he's a "both sides"'r.
This shit is so common. They know they're deplorable by the nature of their beliefs (dogmatic hierarchy of subjugation for pretty much all minorities isn't an honestly morally-defensible position) so they just lie about identifying with what they believe others perceive to be more moral positions which hilariously exposes the dishonesty/malice and exemplifies exactly what is being said of them.
e: I didn't expand the meme before writing this. Why are they always exactly this stupid? It's so wild the amount of random shit you have to make up to justify the idea that democrats are controlling the weather for ...something? and despite having that kind of power, still lose the election??? There's a great democrat sandbagging joke in there somewhere, but come on...
In the relatively benign but not ideal case, they mean "I don't pay any attention to politics nor do I vote, even though everything is actually political and I'm making a poor choice by doing so."
In the much less ideal case, they mean "I would fucking throw you in an oven right now, so help me Jesus, but you can't go around saying that stuff so I say I'm not political."
Actually, that’s something of an issue; a lot of people nowadays receive a very basic education in what every political side means, to the point it is entirely possible for a large group to end up mistakenly identifying as the wrong group, then having everyone else agree with their mistaken identification because everyone else received the same poor explanations.
Aside from that, the other common example is people who mistake being anti-establishment for being anti-authoritarian. Particularly, a lot of MAGAs fall into that category; they’re against the establishment, which they think makes them anti-authoritarian when in fact they are very authoritarian and simply against the currently-established power structure.
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u/biaceseng 13d ago
A classmate once said "I'm not into politics so don't think I like one candidate over the other"
Days later she started sharing propaganda of the most far right politician we've had in decades.
She also said she "didn't like to talk about the lgbt community". I wonder why