speaking personally: I realised how most vocally "anti idpol" posters were imageboard faggots who wanted to keep their teenage white boy idpol while pretending it was a position of apathy rather than uncritical acceptance of culture-war nonsense. The kind of people who want to avoid debates on transgenderism not because it's a stupid timesink debate that benefits nobody on this board, but because they think banning gender reassignment is OBVIOUSLY the solution and if you disagree you're an SJW and should fuck off back to reddit, what do you mean this is idpol and taking a position no it's just common sense haha.
I also realised most imageboard users use similar lazy methods to find where your opinions stand on issues. Throw out a "problematic" here, an um sweaty x there, and the fucking morons will actually believe you're from Tumblr, which makes sucker punching them with unexpected angles and behaviours all the easier. (That sounds too edgy, most of the time it was just leveraging small amounts of text to make them type big walls of text.)
I'd say what's needed is not anti-idpol (inevitably becomes idpol, i watched a sonic video about deconstructionism and the idpol-anti-idpol binary will ALWAYS subvert itself.) but "a-idpol", to be apathetic and uninvested, but that's not realistically possible because people are shits.
incessantly typing ">she" isn't big, funny or clever, no matter how much imageboards have rote trained people to do it.
see look at this guy, don't be him. muh trannies muh trannies muh trannies, it never fucking stops. (but remember, this isn't anti-trans idpol it's just common sense haha don't expect me to shut up haha.)
neither, it just appeals to our instincts.
idpol is great for having constant fucking arguments over that never get resolved, where you can take a clear black and white (HAHAHA) stance on an issue. Love blacks, hate blacks, love trannies, hate trannies, am a woman, hate women in videogames. Make an article saying we should kill all white men and watch the angry white people click the article and spam the comments section as that sweet sweet ad money flows in.
It's worked for British tabloids for decades but it's finally obliterated public discourse now that it's been unleashed onto the internet. Every fucker feels the need to have opinions on these things, you can't just ignore them, because it's all everyone's ever talking about, all everyone's ever ranting about.
The primary weakness of the left is that the left is composed primarily of human beings.
GOOD post.
Ultimately most forms of idpol seek acceptance into the current state of things, rather than to change it.
"I'm a prole and I want there to be no more shareholders or CEOs and for us to produce on the basis of need" vs "I'm a feminist and I want there to be more women CEOs to produce more juiceros."
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Oh look, once again Dr. Idpol starts screaming "liberals!" at anyone who doesn't want to drop anything to babble about how the trannies are going to abolish indoor plumbing.