I am quoted extensively in this excellent bit of investigative college journalism about the utterly bizarre roots of the great American derangement of QAnon.
The Saint Peter’s University newspaper ran this article examining a part of the modern conspiracy culture whose beliefs appear to be stranger and stranger the more one looks at it in light of all the media coverage it received in the wake of the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
From its unknown origins in the bowels of the 4chan message board in what might or might not have been a prank, this movement resembles both a role playing game from hell and a cult at the same time. It’s a sort of do it yourself, crowdsourced conspiracy where thousands of people have coalesced around a movement with no known leader—aside from whomever it is that has been posting unintelligible gibberish about “storms” and “great awakenings” on the Internet—and also a kind of a cult with no charismatic leader.
No matter how one looks at the ongoing saga of QAnon, I think any clear headed person will only see madness.
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Truth bomb: every word of Q drops proven true!
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous,
DeleteYou need to double check your sources. In fact, none of what this so-called Q has hinted at so far has come true. There is no evidence of any centralized, global sex trafficking network controlled by some Deep State supervillain, there was no "Storm," the conspirators were not arrested by Trump, Joe Biden was inaugurated, and Trump did not retake the Oval Office on March 4.
Epstein, Weinstein...sex trafficking, pedos, Satanic Hollywood underground. Please get a clue, professor before you start talking about something you don't know anything about.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous,
DeleteYou need to look at both the Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein cases closely and preferably get your information from sources other than conspiracy theory websites. While both Weinstein and Epstein were truly heinous sexual predators, there is no evidence of any kind of a massive, centralized, global sex trafficking empire run by a single Satanic organization. Simply no evidence exists for this, just like there was not one shred of evidence proving the Satanic Ritual Abuse conspiracy theories in the 1980s. Moreover, the "alternative history" community should be a little more careful in its cavalier accusations of Satanism. One day a celebrity they accuse of being in league with the Devil might make an example of them and hit them with a massive, bankrupting libel suit. I would rather love to see that, actually.
Where we go one we go all!! Forever!!!!
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous,
DeleteWould you be good enough to explain exactly what that phrase means? Just curious.
QAnon has nothing to do with Jews. Please get a clue. Or do you know that already and you are just teaching your students a pack of lies?? Is that it Doctor Donovan? That article is Deep State propaganda indoctrination. Pathetic.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous,
DeletePlease reread the article and take a close look at the antisemitic "blood libel" conspiracy. It is exactly like QAnon's creative fantasies about blood drinking and child sacrifices. The QAnon invention of this Satanic cabal that kills children for their blood incorporated the "blood libel" concept from the age-old antisemitic trope as a dog whistle for all the neo-Nazis and racists to join their ranks. It's utterly repulsive.
What is repulsive is only the thorough and insistent distortion of the subject in which you engage. The logic you employ amounts to only a superficial and fallacious association of "the antisemitic 'blood libel' conspiracy" with the phenomenon known as 'Q', predicated on nothing more than a facile resemblance between the two subjects. It is demonstrable that 'Q' has no link, neither empirically articulated nor implicit, to the "conspiracy" with which you are trying to paint it. The form of the logic you employ is pathetic, and what is "utterly repulsive" is simply and only your continuous dissembling and corollary lack of shame. It is quite clear, you hate the truth.
DeleteDear Anonymous,
DeleteYou need to take a look at the "blood libel" conspiracy Jews have been accused of for centuries. Please read it carefully. The derangement of the QAnon movement and the Pizzagate movement before it is the exact same thing. The blood libel conspiracy claimed that wealthy cabals of Jews controlling the world are kidnapping children and murdering them in sacrifices, drinking their blood. QAnon claims the exact same thing. They might not explicitly name the Jews as the being the forces behind their Deep State and "globalist" child-trafficking cabals, but it is obvious they are referring to Jews. Terms like "globalists," "international bankers," and "moneyed interests" have long been code words for Jews. It is no wonder that the ranks of QAnon include so many Neo Nazis and white supremacists. To claim that QAnon's sleazoid narrative of child sacrifices and human trafficking has no connection to the Jewish blood libel is incredibly naive.
This article is a joke and a lie. Globalist fucktards
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous,
DeletePlease give some details about what parts of the article you find to be untrue and why. You are free to elaborate with facts that you feel will effective dispute the claims of the article. And what does the article have to do with globalists?
Psychiatrists, FBI, police all said Satanic underground and mystery religion cults molested and killed hundreds of kids in the world in 80s. tell your students to do a better job of research and try to teach them something.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous,
DeleteThe FBI thoroughly researched the Satanic Ritual Panic of the 1980s and thoroughly debunked it as a moral panic. There was not a single shred of evidence that a nation-wide Satanic network existed because, as is always the case with large numbers of people trying to keep secrets, a criminal enterprise on that scale could not have been kept hidden.
Enjoy living with your eyes closed. YOu put your ignorance on full display. So sad.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous,
DeleteThe article was very thoroughly researched and linked to information corroborating the writer's claims. Please explain in specific detail what information was left out that would qualify me as living with my "eyes closed."
How come this hatchet job on QAnon and the truth movement is longer than any article written by your school????? Propaganda much????
ReplyDeleteDear Jersey Joe,
DeleteThe article is as long as it is because it deals with a very real and very dangerous threat to our rational, orderly, and democratic society. It is a threat that that needs to be exposed in full detail and I am very proud of the work the student did on this article.