danah boyd explains the connection between the epistemological crisis and the rise of far-right conspiratorial thinking

I heard a clip of Mr. Prager the other day saying that racism is just another leftist hoax that was invented after America had a black President and it doesn’t exist, except for racism against whites, which is in full force.

Their conspiracies all have the same nonsensical narrative: they are the aggrieved, they are the victims. And people like Prager, who like all right-wingers is underwritten by some billionaires, are more than pleased to cook up some cockamamie conspiracy to use to misdirect the ire of the feeble minded towards people that have nothing to do with their problems or people that are actually trying to help them. The job/purpose of Prager & his lot is to make sure that the declining middle class and the burgeoning lower working class don’t figure out that it’s actually all the Republican candidates that they vote for who created this system of extreme economic inequality for the benefit of the billionaires that finance their campaigns and finance Prager. Instead it was Barack Obama and the Democrats and things like affordable healthcare that covered pre-existing conditions that have been ruining their lives.

Not to make a joke on the conspiracy theory thing, but you would seriously wonder if a majority of these people weren’t sprayed with Agent Orange at some point. How can people be such suckers?

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