At post-WHCD brunch, spoke with a journalist at a prestige publication who lamented mass-hysteric brainrot among their readers — many of whom are commenting that last night’s events (and possibly also Butler) were “staged”.
For self-serving or myopic reasons, some people try to pigeonhole this sort of malicious, motivated conspiracism as a partisan phenomenon. It isn’t. What matters is how we react to it, especially given that censorship is (rightly) off the table.