Can someone please tell me where the hell my coworkers have gotten the idea that they're going to be sent to camps because they're gay?
As mentioned earlier in the thread:
Phobia Indoctrination. It's a cult programming technique used on members of a high-control group -- like people in an alternate lifestyle who are, thanks to social media algorithms and cancel culture lynch mobs, kept away from outside viewpoints. You instill in them irrational fears -- "there's a trans genocide coming if literally worse than hitler gets into power or if you stop us from chopping 8 year olds' dicks off and giving them chemical castration agents or prevent horny 50 year old men in dresses from using the bathroom with your daughter for even ONE SECOND," "If I can't murder my child at will at any time then I literally am a SLAVE to the SYSTEM, forEVER," etc etc -- and then use those fears to manipulate the group, keeping them from ever trying to leave or ever question the group's (often artificially enforced) belief systems.
They're literally cult members. They've been indoctrinated into a cult that uses terror to keep everyone in line. Works great, keeps everyone absolutely overwhelmingly enthused to work for the greater good of the party, never questioning anything and hating outsiders with a fiery passion, rejecting any and all wrongdoings of the party and the subculture ("no trans people or gays never touch little boys that's just an alt-right dogwhistle!" "black crime rates are an alt-right dogwhistle!" "muslim opinions on domestic terrorism are an alt-right dogwhistle!")... With one caveat:
IT DRIVES THEM BATSHIT FUCKING INSANE.
This is why, btw, they do whatever they can to fix the Youtube algorithm, why they went so hard in the fucking paint against people like Matt Jarbo, why they're constantly canceling people
especially people on the left who step out of line, etc etc. Because any holes in the epistemic enclosure they've created around the cult -- any sand that gets in the hugbox -- is a chance for people to realize that no, in fact there is no reason to be terrified 24x7 and in fact it's kind of stupid to live like that.
There's nothing an extremist hates more than a moderate. Because moderates lead people out of the cult.