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What happens when someone fakes being abused?
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RE: What happens when someone fakes being abused?
(March 31, 2019 at 8:49 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:
(March 31, 2019 at 6:57 pm)Amarok Wrote: You know accept social condemnation

Perhaps, but at this point, I'm really not convinced that shit like that would be universally condemned. Those girls could probably find some small cadre of other people online who will  say that one girl who finally blew the whistle on the whole scheme was either lying or just a no-good snitch in desperate need of a stitch or two.  Frankly, the way I see it, with the rise of the Internet, we can easily find people who share our frustrations with the world, people who can join together to form an echo chamber and eventually, radicalise with terrifying ease, whether it's incel groups who go from being frustrated with not being able to get a girlfriend to cheering on mass murderers who may or may not actually be like them, or left-wing groups who end up being more concerned with lashing out at (or, as the term is now, cancelling) potential allies who did bad things, ranging all the way from rape down to a muttered joke about USB dongles.

It becomes clear that, well, with friends like those, people have far less of a stake in the norms of the larger culture than you'd like to think. If the larger culture says X is wrong, and all your friends say X is a fucking mitzvah, I simply can't be surprised if people start to side with those smaller groups. Society is broken, and if you want to understand what's going on, the world doesn't make sense if you don't remember that.
I mean among normal society
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Inuit Proverb

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RE: What happens when someone fakes being abused? - by Amarok - March 31, 2019 at 9:10 pm

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