Kind of a roundabout way to say that, but I guess the underlying message is people are equally terrible? That's not really the worst opinion I've seen.

People are blaming propaganda, I additionally blame the attention economy aka social media algorithms that favor attention. Young men are often shown videos of "crazy feminists" acting stupid, which gives this impression.

If you only see the dumbest people and takes from a movement, big surprise you won't understand it.

Lemmy isn't a monolith, and understanding that the fediverse has set itself up as an alternative to centralised platforms, I don't think we should be surprised when trolls who tend to get banned on those other platforms find their way here.

Of course we're going to see a lot of reactionary opinions here. These are the reactionaries that are too reactionary for reddit. They've learned to be less overt in their views because lemmy can excise a whole instance that's just reactionary.

I'd say right now they're trying to radicalise the normies. Vote manipulation is probably part of that strategy to make their views look more accepted than they are.

the context was one singular example of this happening btw, its still a bad take tho

—bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody

Yeah I've seen so much casual misogyny upvoted here

he is so wrong that he got it right at the end... somehow

What years of anti-feminist propaganda does to a man

I thought political beliefs were three dimensional before I entered Lemmy. Now I think there's four

The worst opinion you've ever seen

Yup, that's about what I expect every week or so