[SERIOUS] Why do conspiracy theories seem to involve so much religious fundamentalism, racism, homophobia, and other prejudices? ( conspiracy )

submitted by Snake973

I'm not a huge conspiracy theorist. Some of them make a whole lot of sense to me and I would call myself a believer in those, but oh man is it ever difficult to take someone seriously when they say that legalizing gay marriage is going to directly lead to the second coming and how every single politician in the world is a devil-worshiping pedophile.

I don't understand why these factors seem to show up all over the place? Youtube videos, David Icke's forums (do those still exist? It's been a long time since I've looked for them), the comments of almost literally almost anything on infowars, all over Abovetopsecret. If it were less wide-spread, I could believe that it's people just trolling or trying to discredit threads by spouting off a bunch of crazy stuff. Why does it seem to be the case that a lot of conspiracy theorists are bible-thumping bigots? And, honestly, I do not mean to offend anyone here with that description, most of the folks I've seen on voat appear to significantly more intelligent than the standard on a lot of other websites.

Jubelum

Are you familiar with the term "argument from intimidation"? It is a form of fallacy. A common form is "I used to think like that but then I figured things out" another is "why are all of you people always so racist?" It wasn't a question it was an insult disguised poorly as inquiry. You did not give any examples of racism or quackery. sure you offered a couple of punching bag names but no example to go with them. Do you assume they are representative of everyone here? What specific racism have you observed? Why are people who attack conspiracy theorist so oblivious? Was that a question or a jab?

Snake973

I'm not trying to jab anybody, I was reading a post on infowars about facebook's pride picture generator or whatever, and it seemed like every single comment thread involved people accusing authority figures of being pedophiles, or trying to legalize pedophilia, or beastiality, or equivocating the president to an ape. Why are they being so volatile and accusatory in what i one of fairy few places online where they can be relatively assured of being among like-minded individuals?

grandmacaesar

Divide and conquer.

katphish

Injecting those things into a movement can discredit it with the larger population, making it easier for them to simply disregard the entire message. One has to be careful not to encompass individuals into whole groups. There is also nuance, and from my experience nuance is forgotten when describing groups of people when the descriptions best suits purposes of discredit.

poopwillis

You cite absolutely nothing in your post. "Show up all over the place"? I think you are just trolling this sub.

Jubelum

I was hoping someone else noticed that.

goldfish

Because people are more suspicious of people they don't trust.

Echo_of_Savages

It's similar to the SJW mentality. They are looking to lash out at something because they had a shitty childhood or whatever.

OrangeKraken

A lot of lies and misdirection out there either by peoples who job is to make conspiracy theorist sound crazy or just useful idiots who take things in the wrong context or start spouting obvious disinformation around the net, thinking it is truth. Its kind of mind boggling how deep it goes.

The best advice I can give you is to read everything, check the sources and put it on the back burner. If its low quality eventually it'll burn up and go away, but if you start making the right connections and reading the right books you'll end up with a delicious caramel of knowledge.

Voat is still small so those who pay attention to all fun happenings around the net like reddit got a general feel for when to move onto other platforms. Voat will likely go the exact same route as reddit so tread with care. Every site will eventually be compromised.

As for devil worshipers it wouldn't even surprise me at this point if its all true. The pedophilia scandals, the constant occult symbolism and the actions taken internationally by the powers that be. Its utterly insane. Just follow the money and you'll start finding answers.

One thing I will say though is that I think we live in a very interesting time to be alive and paying attention. Research into Natural Law if you're really interested. Belief is the enemy of knowing.

Kabuthunk

If I had to give a short answer to your question, it'd be "because all those things you mentioned lie about what they're doing a lot more in order to push their agenda."

And from big, deep-rooted lies come conspiracies.

IveSeenYouNakid

Those are all things people hide....

Vladimir_Komarov

A lot of it is disinformation used to make believable conspiracies look just as wacky. If someone starts getting a little too close to the truth, it wouldn't be hard for someone else to stand up and say something similar but with an added degree of nonsense. That then makes both look as unbelievable as the second. What's interesting is to look at various conspiracy theories that have been proven true .

COUSCOUS

standard procedure.