Kay Elúvian@kayeluvian@the.voiceover.bar
@ellieraejaye@lgbtqia.space Christ she is a freak.
Ellie‽ (Radio Edit)@ellieraejaye@lgbtqia.space
@kayeluvian@the.voiceover.bar she's utterly consumed by hate.
Kay Elúvian@kayeluvian@the.voiceover.bar
Ellie‽ (Radio Edit)@ellieraejaye@lgbtqia.space
SleepyCatten@SleepyCatten@cultofshiv.wtf
@ellieraejaye@lgbtqia.space @kayeluvian@the.voiceover.bar
We like how Natalie Wynn (ContraPoints) described it in her The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling video:
She's gone down, what I call, The Bigotry Whirlpool. The deeper you go in, the harder it is to leave. For the same reasons that it's hard to quit a cult or scam.And:
To quote video essayist, Dan Olson- - "One of the most insidious elements of a confidence scam is that the victims who invested the most are often the most passionate defenders because shame is a powerful force in the human psyche, and they can't bear the shame of admitting they were tricked."
Reformed bigots have to face not only the shame of being dupes, but also the guilt of having devoted years of life to harming vulnerable people.
Most bigots cannot stand to face this moral sunk cost. It's why an obsessive bigot like Graham Linehan, whose all-consuming hatred of trans people has ruined his life, cost him his marriage, and left him alone to tweet about destroying gender ideology minutes before midnight on New Year's Eve, feels psychologically compelled to insist with ever more certainty that trans people are not just delusional or dangerous, but are all demonic perverts, an enemy so hyperbolically evil that they justify his self-immolating crusade.
[video interview between Glinner and BBC presenter]
[Glinner] "They took everything from me. You know, they took my family, you know, and I just said, now, hang on a sec, stop calling these women TERFs, Stop sending them abuse. Let them speak. And for that they, they just destroyed me."
"[BBC interviewer] "Do you honestly feel destroyed?"
[Glinner] "No, because the one thing about this, the one thing about this that keeps me going is that I know I'm right. You know? I know I'm right."
As long as he stays here in the bottom of the whirlpool, he never has to face that he's ruined his relationships and wasted years of life because he just couldn't let it go. And if J.K. Rowling doesn't log off soon, this will likely be her fate as well.