HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoWhite Supremacist Killer Testifies He Was Radicalized by Conspiratorial Content Like Infowarswww.vice.comexternal-linkmessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up1664arrow-down120cross-posted to: conservative@lemmy.world
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minus-squarellamalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down4·8 months agoHow do these people watch conspiratorial content and miss the fact that pale male European colonialism literally is the conspiracy?
minus-squareshasta@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·8 months agoHow is it a conspiracy? It’s a fact that’s been quite well known for hundreds of years
minus-squareCethin@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·8 months agoThat’s mostly the modern understanding, but the word also still means people working together to achieve something.
minus-squareEatATaco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·8 months agoA conspiracy is working with people secretly to do some illegal or wrong in some way. You aren’t conspiring with your teammates to win a soccer game.
How do these people watch conspiratorial content and miss the fact that pale male European colonialism literally is the conspiracy?
How is it a conspiracy? It’s a fact that’s been quite well known for hundreds of years
That’s mostly the modern understanding, but the word also still means people working together to achieve something.
I thought that’s collusion/collaboration
A conspiracy is working with people secretly to do some illegal or wrong in some way. You aren’t conspiring with your teammates to win a soccer game.