When the bigots are better people than you

As the saying goes, a lot of online bigots don’t even care about your background, just as long as you’re a bigot yourself. Jason Pargin expands on this phenomenon here, providing an anecdote where he mentions that his most racist friend had an extremely diverse social circle. He adds that it’s a well understood phenomenon where people abstractly pretend to take up all these social causes when they are actually quite horrible in daily life, but we don’t really understand the reverse phenomenon where people go out of their way to be rancid in their vibes, but are nevertheless always helping out. So what’s happening here? I think the answer is pretty simple. This is a textbook definition of… What? You want me to explain what that means? Fine. It’s probably best to illustrate as an example. Let’s take one of the more spicy opinions that I hold: I believe in eugenics. Which is to say, I believe that women should have the right to take the pill, and that people shouldn’t have incest babies b

As the saying goes, a lot of online bigots don’t even care about your background, just as long as you’re a bigot yourself. Jason Pargin expands on this phenomenon here, providing an anecdote where he mentions that his most racist friend had an extremely diverse social circle. He adds that it’s a well understood phenomenon where people abstractly pretend to take up all these social causes when they are actually quite horrible in daily life, but we don’t really understand the reverse phenomenon where people go out of their way to be rancid in their vibes, but are nevertheless always helping out.