askchapo @hexbear.net wahwahwah [none/use name] @hexbear.net 1 yr. ago

Best litmus tests for detecting reactionaries?

What are the go-to subjects for revealing the true, regressive beliefs of reactionaries who don't consider themselves reactionary? Off the top of my head:

-Trans people in sports: Major gateway to transphobia and misogyny. Complaints about trans athletes inevitably lead to sexism towards literally any woman with muscles. Pretty sure this is how Joe Rogan and a ton of his supporters became so unhinged.

-Affirmative action: So, so many liberals and "leftists" will complain about how they would've totally gotten into Harvard and Yale if not for The Blacks^tm. Love to bring up SAT scores even though they've been proven to be racist and classist and a shit metric for intellectual value.

-Shakespeare authorship question: A bit niche. Basically, Curtis Yarvin and other Dark Enlightenment dweebs don't think that Shakespeare was capable of penning such timeless plays because he wasn't rich, and according to them, not rich=dumb and uncreative mental husk.

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IME transphobia really outs them. I'm not trans or anything but basically any new troll showing up to ruin a community just can't keep resist parroting one of the far right talking points or has truckloads of them in their history. Another I've noticed is a user whose kind of sus but their post history is almost 100% sports subreddits.
- or porn. if they've commented on porn even once 100% chance they're reactionary.
  
  I like football and have commented on porn
  
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  not "porn debate" subs, but subs of porn content. I forgot to mention this in addition to sports, but less common I've noticed people using their horny account to troll. Their entire post history is comments on pics of naked ladies or naked Japanese cartoon characters.
  
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- The sports thing is real. If somebody makes supporting a football team the most prominent part of their identity they're almost always aggressive chuds.
  
  That's not really true, there are plenty of gay footfall/soccer fans
  
  plenty of reactionary LGBT and LGBT-appropriating individuals, too

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