scotchtapeofficial:

talkingsoup:

scotchtapeofficial:

i honestly wouldnt even know how to begin to respond to a comment like this because its so fuckin detached from my experience of reality and morality, but i wanted to share because that kids reply on the bottom like … nailed it. damn

like, what else can you say to someone who openly says they’re racist, homophobic, and transphobic, and refuses to believe that makes them a ‘bad guy’?

“you’re background noise the rest of us have to put up with” FUCK

i mean i know replying to Bait ™ is kinda categorically stupid, especially on youtube, but i just like taking the wind out of the sails of soft bigotry. it’s just such classic stealth troll tactics, this guy was practically quoting from the red piller script. they expect you to engage with them in a certain way, so when you do the opposite, all they can do is keep drawing from the script or using all the most tried and true tactics for misdirecting and derailing. they start threads like presenting this “soft bigotry” that on a surface level seems more palatable than if they’d come in shouting epithets or something. it makes it seem as if they’re just here looking for reasonable discourse. then when you get (justifiably) angry, you’re the bad guy, the loud asshole who refuses to be calm and measured, and Mr. Reasonable over here can say he won some kind of moral victory. hence that line about being the villain. he wanted people to see him as a villain, so he could act like a hero.

but he’s not either thing. he’s just noise.

the best way to deal with noise is just to mute it, but there’s something kind of problematic about the idea of “if you ignore it, it’ll go away.” because we all know that if you ignore a problem, sometimes it just gets worse. i could make a comment here about the current political landscape in america but man it’s like three in the morning and i’m tired.

i guess the bottom line here is that if you’re gonna feed a troll, feed them empty calories. then eventually they’ll starve to death.

also it was worth it cause every time i replied i got to watch the vid again and give scotch another view 🙂

the legend!!

this is some solid fuckin advice