#radicalism pipeline

[amortize]

hey assholes: if you refuse to entertain criticism, if you refuse to back your claims, if you wish violence upon your detractors... you are the the problem, regardless of what buzzwords you've used to enshroud your argument.

you know how sometimes people get so intensly passionate and single-minded that they just... lose the ability to consider any perspective other than their own? a sort of narrow-minded tunnel-vision that leaves them spiraling down an echo-chamber filled with increasingly radical takes.

one day they're exploring their stance, the next they're refusing to even entertain a differing opinion. and with this radicalism comes anger, hatered, towards anything that shatters those preconcieved notions.

i just see so much anger and hostility, and it makes me uncomfortable, in a visceral, anxiety-clawing-out-of-my-chest way. to see people overcome, so easily, by emotion, to the point where reason is optional and opponents become other, inhuman.

and i am angry, too. at the fallacies perpetrated, at the way innocent causes are unfairly demonized, at the way perfectly logical causes are co-opted, exploited to suit a twisted purpose.

i can't help but feel weak: for succumbing to this fire and frustration. for knowing that i will not ever succeed, because you cannot hope to sway one who will not listen. for feeling a bone deep sadness, at the prospect of trying, still, failing to fix anything.

so i choose to disengage. because it is what's best for me in this moment. i refuse to bash my head against the wall, hoping against hope that things might change. i refuse to ruminate over that which i have no control.

yet it still scares me. is this who we were before, and we just didn't have the means to see it? is there something fundamentally broken in our tiny monkey hindbrains, that we devolve so easily into such a hateful people?

#hey antis yall dont even know how much i have you #not just that #so many things #radicalism pipeline #human nature? #or a product of more harmful influences #why cant we all just get along and love each other christmas day #im really high right now #and i hate so many people #and things #ideas #philosophies #some people are just built different i guess #by different i mean stupid

[feliaes]

whenever you see one of those pinterest profiles that are like "max he/him I LOVE MEN" plastered with the mlm flag and boards full of fight club and brokeback mountain you just know there‘s a 90% chance they are run by TiFs 😭😭

#bonus points if they got a board just for being trans #fujoshi to tif pipeline is real #radblr #radical feminists do touch #radical feminist safe #terfblr

[creature-wizard]

What is the New Age to Alt Right Pipeline, and how do you stay out of it?

The term "New Age to Alt Right pipeline" refers to the way alternative spirituality and healthcare often serves as an entry point to far right radicalization. While many people are dismissive that such a thing could even exist, plenty of people in occult and witchcraft communities can confirm that it is very much a real thing. Having studied far right conspiracies myself for awhile now, I can personally confirm that a number of people involved in alternative spirituality, including ones who consider themselves progressive, are spouting off the very same conspiracy theories used to justify persecution of the Jews throughout the Middle Ages to the Nazi regime.

Even if you don't reckon yourself a New Ager, you are still likely to come across this stuff because there's no hard and fast place where New Age ends and witchcraft, neopaganism, or whatever begins. While the core and arguably most defining belief of New Age is that the Earth is on the cusp of entering a new cosmic cycle, there's a significant amount of overlap between things New Agers are into, and things that other people are into.

For example, someone interested in Wicca might start researching the Goddess, and from there very quickly encounter conspiracy theories claiming that everyone was monotheistic for the Great Goddess back before The Patriarchy Tee Em invented a male god for people to be monotheist for. From there, it's just a short matter of time before they start coming across materials claiming that the Jews are responsible for the creation of this god, and also responsible for the Catholic Church, and so on. (Pro tip, the Roman government was responsible for the Catholic Church.)

The best way to keep yourself safe from this isn't to simply avoid all material that might potentially contain far right ideas and conspiracy theories. Rather, it's to learn what they look like. Here's a few things to watch out for:

The grand conspiracy narrative: The exact details you'll hear will vary depending on who you're listening to - every conspiracy theorist tailors and re-tailors the grand conspiracy narrative to suit their own agendas and beliefs. The key details to watch out for are claims that there's this secret group that's been pulling the strings behind the scenes for a long while now, and that their agents are working everywhere to make sure the people stay deceived.

To be blunt about it, literally every conspiracy theory about a New World Order, a shadow government, generational satanists, satanic bloodlines, reptilian bloodlines, and so on is a riff on the material found within The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a czarist hoax used to justify violence against Russian Jews, and later on, the Holocaust. There are no exceptions.

During the Satanic Panic, many people claimed to have been part of such a conspiracy. Investigations failed to turn up any real evidence, and those pushing these claims always turned out to have a history of dishonest behavior, or had been subjected to hypnosis by someone with a history of dishonest behavior and/or a gross disregard for medical ethics.

If you see someone claiming to have been part of something like this today, your best assumption is that they are lying to you, or are extremely confused. End of story.

Great Goddess conspiracy theories: Back in the mid-19th century, Eduard Gerhard proposed that people all used to worship the Great Goddess, until patriarchy came along and replaced her with a god. There's literally no evidence for this whatsoever, but a lot of people who believe that patriarchy is part of a grand conspiracy still believe this one. You'll often see it in conjunction with stuff about the "divine feminine" and womb magic among those who believe that patriarchy is part of the grand conspiracy.

Claims of mass ritual abuse and murder: An allegation that goes back to blood libel and the witch trials, far right conspiracy theorists often claim that there is an underground network of cults practicing ritual abuse and human sacrifice. This was the kind of thing that people were put under hypnosis to try and remember during the Satanic Panic, based on incorrect beliefs about how memory worked. (In reality, going under hypnosis to try and recover lost memories mainly results in fabricating completely new ones, because hypnotic visions basically work just like dreams.)

Claims of mass mind control: Not many people realize this, but this one goes all the way back to the witch hunts, when alleged witches were accused of ensnaring people's minds with their diabolical spells. (Yes, the witch trials were fueled by conspiracy theories!) Today's conspiracy theorists claim that the conspiracy uses things like music, movies, implants, subliminal messages, drugs, medications, 5G, extreme tortures, and more to put people under total mind control. The whole Project Monarch conspiracy theory is part of this; and a number of people were also put under hypnosis to "remember" being part of Project Monarch during the Satanic Panic.

Anti-pharma/anti-vax conspiracy theories: During World War II, Nazis demonized pharmaceutical drugs as "Jewish science" so they could push cheaper herbal remedies, which were largely ineffective. If you see somebody claiming that pharmaceutical drugs or vaccines are created by the conspiracy to keep people sick or make them easier to control, know that it's a redux of this old bullshit. Today's anti-pharma and anti-vax conspiracy theories often go in conjunction with claims that stuff like crystals, energy healing, and quantum healing technology can replace conventional medical care.

Claims to know the real cause of your medical or psychological symptoms: During the early modern witch hunts, strange symptoms were often blamed on the curses of satanic witches. The Satanic Panic picked this one up and modernized it through a psychological lens, claiming that seemingly inexplicable symptoms were evidence of suppressed memories of ritual abuse. Meanwhile, believers in alien abductions claimed it was evidence of suppressed memories of alien-related trauma, and neopagans and New Agers claimed it was evidence of past life trauma. All of these people have used hypnosis to help people "remember" these supposedly lost memories, and due to the nature of hypnosis (again, hypnotic visions work like dreams), all of them found "evidence" to corroborate literally anything they wanted to find.

Other modernizations of this old witch hunters' canard include claims that your strange symptoms are caused by things like 5G, chemtrails, chemicals in the water, food additives, sound frequencies, or such. Now this isn't to say that there's never been toxic food additives, or that certain sound frequencies can never cause harm; the key element is when these people claim that this stuff is done as part of a grand conspiracy.

Meanwhile, New Agers claim that your strange symptoms might actually be "ascension symptoms." For the record, numerous dates that ascension was supposed to happen on have gone and went, and we're all still here in 3D. So I'd recommend not holding your breath for this one, either.

Claiming the conspiracy is responsible for everything bad or wrong in the world: Conspiracy theorists will blame the grand conspiracy for literally anything they find unpleasant or objectionable to the conspiracy. This can include claiming that movies they found confusing, emotionally difficult, or ideologically challenging were deliberately designed to harm people or put them under mind control. They might claim that things like long wait lines are intentionally engineered to frustrate and exhaust people in order to make them easier to control. They might claim that horrible accidents or disasters are actually "programming" to make people accept the lie.

This isn't to say that governments never do genuinely malicious shit, or that brainwashing doesn't exist. The thing here is that conspiracy theorists frequently attribute nearly everything they find strange, confusing, or unpleasant to the schemes of a grand conspiracy. They often act like if it wasn't for the grand conspiracy, we would be living in utopia.

Dehumanization of the Other: Conspiracy theorists often talk as if the masses aren't quite human, calling them "NPCs" or "sheeple." Sometimes they literally believe that other people aren't truly human. You'll find various conspiracy theories claiming that certain people are actually animal hybrids, AI-controlled clones, malicious aliens pretending to be humans, holographic projections, or something similar. The key thing to keep in mind here is that dehumanization is a crucial step toward genocide, and the far right wants to do genocide on anyone who doesn't do what they say, or doesn't fit their idea of what humanity ought to be like.

Individualist outlooks on life, metaphysics, etc: Today's far right is all about that Western individualism; they tend to be capitalists and libertarians, and think communism is an invention of the conspiracy. Their metaphysical views tend to reflect this, and they often subscribe to some form of worldview in which everything that happens to you is your fault, and expecting anyone else to take any kind of responsibility is just victim mentality.

With Christians, this presents as the belief that bad things happen to you because you're not right with God; if you got right with God, he would bless you with health and abundance.

With New Age and New Age-adjacent types, this often presents as stuff like the Law of Attraction and the Law of Assumption, where everything that happens to you is a consequence of the way you think. It can also present in the belief that if anything bad happens to you, it's your karma.

Stuff like the Law of Assumption is pitched as this super empowering way to get everything you want, but in reality it functions to make people feel responsible for the suffering they experience under capitalism and silence criticism of systemic issues.

So yeah, keep your eyes open for all this stuff, and if you see somebody out there pushing it - be wary!

Links for more info:

"How can I be a witch/pagan without falling for conspiracy theories/New Age cult stuff?" starter kit (I put a bunch of links to other posts and resources here earlier; no need to copy/paste them all here.)

Incomplete list of far right conspiracy theorists and con artists claiming to be occult experts and/or cult survivors

Hypnosis is unreliable for memory recovery, and this is one way we know.

False past life memories among the starseed movement

Hitler's Contribution to "Alternative Medicine"

#new age to alt right pipeline #radicalization #paganblr #occultblr #witchblr #conspiracy theories #conspiracy theory #conspiracism #new age #critical thinking #discernment #spirituality #conspirituality

[crazycatsiren]

Radfems and "rad leaning" witches are still trying to follow me? Like where on my blog do you see "Nazis and white supremacist bitches please interact"?

#radfems fuck off #rad leaners dni #radfems are fascists #radfems are a hate group #radical feminism to fascism pipeline

[yinyuedijun]

I always thought this webbed site was kinda toxic but then hsr metaheads always prove me wrong by showing me the TRUE meaning of toxicity 😍

#aventurine dmg / light cone discourse is killing me guys #RGDLKSSLSKA #no wonder theres a gamer to alt right pipeline this level of daily vitriol would radicalize anyone #yueshuo #anyway i love my king he is the most discourse plagued character in this game in every respect

[biosblades]

I’ve seen whispers of various accusations, but I’ve just found out from their latest post dump that prismatic bell is a genuine violent Zionist. So I decided to do a bit more digging and it literally took me like 10 secs to find the receipts exposing ableism, racism, terf rhetoric, and other hateful behavior.

I honestly used to reblog a lot bc I feel like when they do make a good point (even broken clocks ig… or they do a really good job masking their bigotry as progressivism and sometimes that results in a few genuinely progressive stances) they’re very well articulated, but a lot of the (extremely well founded) accusations are also for spreading misinformation so I’m not trusting shit anymore. If it is something I know for a fact they’re right about I’ll just do the work to articulate it myself

Anyway I know Im like the last person to know about this but sorry to anyone who knew and was subjected to them because of me and here’s a formal warning to anyone who still wasn’t aware of who they really are

#bigotry veiled in leftist buzzer words is becoming such a huge concern now #and the fact that most of their posts were valid and convincing makes it seem like a radicalization pipeline situation #they come off as compassionate and if you don’t know enough about the issues they make it sound like they’re on the reasonable side #prismatic bell #zionists #TERFs #ableism #racism #warning #call out post #I guess #not really it’s more of an apology and warning

[ex-foster]

A common argument that porn industry advocates argue is that if porn were abolished, then men would rape "normal" women.

As if the women being raped in porn are not normal women.

Many sex trafficking victims are from the foster care system and perhaps that is not a "normal" upbringing, but we are human beings. We feel pain and humiliation just like you would if you lived our lives.

#foster care #foster kids #feminism #radical feminism #radical feminist #aging out #social work #Sex trafficking #Trafficking pipeline #anti sex work #anti sex industry

[xxchromies]

If Elliot Rodger were alive today he'd either be trans or part of the manosphere. Either way, he'd throw his money away on NFTs.

#incels #radblr #radical feminism #incel to trans pipeline #elliot rodger

[uwuthrad]

I'm just shooting the shit because it's one am and I can't sleep but sometimes I'm a little bit sad that the Thalmor are written as cartoonishly evil nazi stand-ins because it preemptively de-claws their gripe against Talos worship, which is actually very valid when you think about it in terms of the literal deification of The Guy who was known as a killer of mer.

And it's weird how reoccuring of a theme it is in the Nords' self-mythology, too, because that's something Talos shares with Ysgramor, who went on a bloody genocide spree, ultimately, because the nords claimed a right to Skyrim they felt superseded that of the snow elves, which is just weird, when you think about it, because as far as I know there's nothing to indicate they had even been there before Ysgramor's time.

You find Ysgramor in Sovngarde. There's no reason to believe Talos isn't a real god, in-universe, either. But fuck, man, if I was an elf and I saw a dude who hunted my people for sport and wasn't ever sorry about it ascend to divinity, I would be mad, too. Mad enough to tear the world to ribbons, too, if I could.

In TES lore, belief maketh gods, sorta. And sometimes I wonder if the Thalmor want to stop Talos worship not because of the whole tower theory, but merely because - imagine it - Talos being a god means there is a god above that hates you, not for who you are, but what you are. And that's terrifying.

The Thalmor are not nice. They're not sympathetic. They do horrible thing. But shit, man, who wouldn't, when faced with the threat of divine annihilation? One that you know half the world endorsed with a smile, out of pride, even when it meant deifying your murderer? I would be ugly, too. I would be petty and mean and cruel, because that's how scared people behave. That's what happens to people you tell you don't think they really are people.

Anyway I have a lot of feelings about the god-emperor-conquerer narrative in TES and its narrative perspective. Probably will delete later

#Not to be a Thalmor apologist but actually yeah #Delete later #skyrim #Rambles #tes #Is it a shitpost? You decide #The Stormcloak rethoric to real-life white supremacist pipeline is terrifyingly short #Which puts a lot of other things into perspective #Fascinating how the Thalmor are both the Hugo Boss-wearing golden men of nazi myth and the inhuman Other all at once #Radical idea but hear me out: genocide is bad

[creature-wizard]

Found this podcast episode featuring Matthew Remski talking about the New Age to Alt Right pipeline, which is a thing that everybody in witchy, pagan, and occult communities needs to know about. I also doubly recommend that baby/beginner witches give this one a watch, because it's way too easy to fall into this stuff when you're still figuring out your beliefs and practices.

#new age #new age to alt right pipeline #radicalization #witchblr #pagan community #conspirituality #baby witch #beginner witch #matthew remski #suburban witchery #witchcraft community #Youtube

[crazycatsiren]

Every time I block a radfem, a trans woman gains her tits.

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

#radfems fuck off #radfems are fascists #radical feminism to fascism pipeline #radfems are a hate group #radfems are white supremacists

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

More people should watch the Santa Clarita Diet tbh, they either got cancelled by Netflix because of the plotline where the kids do an eco terrorism or they got cancelled and decided to put teenagers doing eco terrorism in their final season, and both of those options are pretty great tbh.

#caitie speaks #santa clarita diet #was just thinking about this because of that post about the new film #the fbi really doesn’t like #how to blow up a pipeline #about i assume radical water defenders

[tiktaalic]

a terf will say some shit like i am so miserable i am the most miserable ive everbeen in my life i dont know how to be happy back to back with the foulest cruelest thing youve ever seen. girl..........

#etxt #people were big on talking about the radicalization pipeline for lonely teen boys but it really does seem transphobia is the radicalization #pipeline For Girlz #kiwifarms trfblr both the exact same level of oh these people are going to kill themselves for real because they have no friends interests #hobbies or joy in their life and purposefully embroil themself in misery and cruelty to try to scrape out any emotion at all which does not #in fact make them feel better. anyway!

[acedoesstuffblr]

The Five Nights at Freddy’s to Radical Leftist pipeline is a bit too real

#fnaf #five nights at freddy's #leftism #leftist #radical left #alt left #horror #horror games #pipeline #shitpost #based #meme

[aropride]

the most frustrating thing is apparently my dad used to be really cool. like gay communist, presumably tried not to be a bigot, type of cool. And then he started going to church again in college

#text #& fuck the xtian church #go to church -> become more conservative -> meet my mother -> go to more church -> iphone invented -> #foxnews -> algorithms become popularized -> radicalization pipeline

[fandomfloozy]

The way Christians talk about why they believe in Jesus is.... The FUNNIEST thing in the world to me

"Jesus pulled me out of this tough time. He's the reason I'm alive today"

Girl, armies on Twitter say the exact same thing about BTS, Jesus isn't special 😭😭😭

#like bffr #be so serious rn #the kind of thoughts in my head when i consume Brittany Broski media #shes so funny but so real omg #the southern baptist fangirl to radicalized stan pipeline might be real