During their twelve-year reign, the Nazis devised a color-coded system of triangle badges that identified the so-called crime of prisoners in the concentration camps. Queer men and trans women prisoners were labeled with the pink triangle. Beginning in the 1970s, queer activists reclaimed the symbol and asserted that being queer was in no way shameful. They transformed the pink triangle from a badge of shame and imprisonment into a global rallying cry for queer liberation, community, and pride.

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It’s a curious accident of human nature that strawdoll tactics are so popular rhetorically since they are really, really bad for convincing people. They’re good at preaching to the choir and riling up the base, which is what contributes to their popularity; “manufacturing outrage”, but when people see through the strawdoll claims, that can undermine the credibility of your entire case and send them running right into the waiting arms of the other side, and when that other side truly is so much worse than yours, that’s a disaster.

People on the fence are especially vulnerable to this. They’ve seen some of the other side’s argument and now they come to hear you out. They see you saying things about the other side that doesn’t mesh with what they’ve heard, with how the other side has originally presented itself, and they conclude that you’re exaggerating or even lying, especially if that other side isn’t presenting itself that honestly.

Outright nazis have wrested control over the conspiracy-theory movement. Mulder & Scully has a lot to answer for.😭