As you hint in your final paragraph these culture warriors might well be putting themselves in an excruciating moral predicament if the far right ever enacts some of this online "irony" such as depriving Muslims of rights or actually organising mass deportations. What would they say then? Go all in - "we meant it after all!". Or run from responsibility - "we never really meant anything!" In most cases I suppose it will be the latter.
As you hint in your final paragraph these culture warriors might well be putting themselves in an excruciating moral predicament if the far right ever enacts some of this online "irony" such as depriving Muslims of rights or actually organising mass deportations. What would they say then? Go all in - "we meant it after all!". Or run from responsibility - "we never really meant anything!" In most cases I suppose it will be the latter.
It gets ever more hysterical on both ends of the so called spectrum to be fair.
There’s the real world and there’s the social media podcast world, one of them gives me way more cheap dopamine hits
A light in the darkness, a sane voice in bedlam. Thanks Stefan.
Very kind of you Terry!