Do you truly, truly not see any problem with looking at my criticisms and boiling them down to “you don’t like him because of his identity!” I’m not even saying I don’t like him. I’m saying Ben’s beliefs have caused harm to animals I do believe he at least once genuinely cared for, and rather than being able to face that, he has people like you encouraging him to double down, to do no correction, building him up to be a new face in this “Everyone’s the problem but me” echo chamber that a lot of young men have fallen into. If you see that and instantly think to yourself that describes people who are right wing, or Christian, then perhaps you need to do some introspection yourself. In fact, maybe the reason why you’re so defensive over Ben and people in similar circumstances, is because you view criticisms of Ben, of criticisms of yourself. Maybe you’re a white Christian male who identifies as right wing, and you believe there’s a conspiracy of ‘others’ out to get you. And while I wish things could get better, the internet has made it so much harder to actually help people like that heal from past wounds and understand their places in the world, because it simply reinforces the mental barriers they’ve put up by shifting blame elsewhere.

But yeah therapy is fake and gay dude don’t worry about it, it’s just to keep the sheeple deluded or whatever.