• LexiconDexicon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t understand why these incels insist on using a Matrix analogy, red-pill just means “truth” and blue-pill means “ignorance”, why do they constantly subvert a basic concept? It’s literally the same with “woke”, it literally just means what it says, “being attuned to what’s going on”. Nothing more, but these idiots literally ruin it, if anything they’re blue-pilled, going by the Matrix

    • Nonameuser678@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      The Matrix is also queer af and full of anti-fascist themes. So these incel guys are really barking up the wrong tree in so many ways

      • S_204@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        They quote the Bible without understanding it either, not surprising they’d do it with a movie.

    • oneofthemladygoats
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      1 year ago

      Red pill/blue pill was written as an analogy to the experience of trans people, as well. The ignorance with how they’ve co-opted the concept runs quite deep.

    • shinjiikarus@mylem.eu
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      1 year ago

      This is literally 1984’s double thinking: the people accusing other people of being woke and defining themselves as red-pilled (woken up to a reality) are in turn the most ignorant. They are accusing their enemy of having reached a state of mind they themselves claim to have reached, while they actually did not. Totally paradoxical.