as online, fully incoherent and mostly reacting to a boogeyman that does not actually exist

but with the weird power imbalance where I was the professor stonefacing while a student went on a crazy ramble.

I think that conversation would have gone differently in any other space

you met one in the wild

I'm so tired.

yeah I can imagine that was. something. to deal with

like it wasn't exactly a surprise dude has been parroting hard-right talking points all semester

ah

but he treated it like some grand confession like GASP, the fabled Redpill

o god kill it with fire

quiver at his might, you lowly female, or something like that

did you remind him the red pill was a idea that the alt right co-opted from two trans women.....

(I know, it would not be appropriate to, but i think about that a lot)

I think that the going explanation for that move is that the trans women in question came out after the release of their film and is an example of the Insidious brainwashing of the radical left, or something

obligatory link to my favorite book about the altright Not All Dead White Men

Ooh. It's true that the redpill crowd is very into appropriating the classics. I know it's part of Jordan Peterson's MO in particular, because the appeal to myths and history is part of his method of making people feel important and special. I should check that book out.

this book sounds so interesting

How did you survive it?

professional obligation, mostly

if I want to create a safe space for people to talk freely, that means sometimes being trusted with the wildest of their young adult shit