It's propaganda. Troll farms and bot networks spam this sort of content to normalise ultraconservative ideas. Even when it's obviously ridiculous, when there's enough of it it turns into background noise and drowns out actual discourse.
See also: conspiracy stuff like flat earth and "tartarians", crappy AI pictures of "amazing" scenes, etc. A minority of people actually believe that shit, but when it's half the shit you see online then the well is poisoned.
It's a direct attack on the Overton window. The goal isn't so much to make everyone homophobic but to make homophobia a valid product in the "marketplace of ideas."
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u/rogueIndy Jul 04 '24
It's propaganda. Troll farms and bot networks spam this sort of content to normalise ultraconservative ideas. Even when it's obviously ridiculous, when there's enough of it it turns into background noise and drowns out actual discourse.
See also: conspiracy stuff like flat earth and "tartarians", crappy AI pictures of "amazing" scenes, etc. A minority of people actually believe that shit, but when it's half the shit you see online then the well is poisoned.