Gulags were 'compassionate', 'educational' institutions say morons on Twitter

[Firgof Umbra]

As the article says, they're preying on groups which are isolated, lonely, and have obscure interests which people blast and hate on. So I guess it went wrong when people lampooned the crap out of furries, forcing them to build their own quasi-separate society where they could do what they harmlessly enjoy without people haranguing them.

The ironic bullying turned into unironic bullying by people who either didn't get that it was ironic or who didn't care it was ironic which made them self-isolate which made them ripe for being radicalized by people who prey on the isolated and the mocked and hated. In this case, I guess, hate begot hate -- even if the original hate was ironic. I guess, ultimately, what went wrong - and what appears to keep going wrong - is that irony is no longer reliably ironic.

[ASparkle]

Honestly the thing that irritates me the most is just referring to gulags in the past tense. Aside from those former eastern bloc countries that haven't been reoccupied by the Russian Army (and possibly Cambodia and Vietnam, I don't know what happened to their gulags) the gulags haven't gone away. Russia, China, North Korea, and the territories occupied by the Russian Army or puppets thereof all still keep political prisoners in forced labor camps, they're not were, they are.

[Swilly]

This was more an existential crisis than a literal one.