"YEaH, JeWs won't RePlaCe uS"! "BlOoD aNd SoIL!"
- Some people in the Charlottesville Rally.

optics != respectability though. It may correlate to it but it's not 1:1

maybe i misunderstand optics. i though optics is about how people see you and what you present to the world is part of that

@Louis XIV (aka 1685Violin) They were marching to save a confederate statue, What could they have done to get the Media not to attack them?

respectability is part of that isn't it?

Point being if the media smears something as racist, when it very clearly is not then the smear backfires. Optics is all about making sure the smear does not register

@NeoFuturist Respectability is much more important than optics. You can dress nice all you want but if no one respects you it doesn't matter

@Zemo How many times has that happened?

To be clear, I'm not denying the possibility that there might have been feds but as far as I can tell, I don't know whether there were as such at all.

@Louis XIV (aka 1685Violin) I'm not going to blame feds for all of it. It was still a bad look, but looks aren't everything

is optics just the exterior than? I think it's more complicated than that

@Zemo They called Zimmerman a white hispanic.

and bleached his face

the wignat mentality is not only an exterior, it's a certain kind of philosophy that lacks respectability right?

and got away with it for the most part.

Not really. Everyone who talks about optics is literally hiding something behind a nice exterior. Its not about changing their core beliefs or end goal to be more palatable. its about dressing up for the public

Looks aren’t everything, but they aren’t nothing either. We live in the television era, everything’s recorded and filmed for all to see. We can’t afford looking bad

@Zemo They control the framing not you.

Here is a good video on this subject as a refresher. @NeoFuturist

https://youtu.be/dK8Qxo55fpI

thx

Don’t feed them the ammunition they need to smear you is what we’re saying

Then you can't engage with them. If you engage, they WILL smear you.

^

Just repeating some basic beliefs will give them ammunition.

No ones ever denied the smear will happen, but making sure you don’t look or say anything suspect will give you a better chance of the smear backfiring

They control the framing. It doesn't matter if you look amazing, they can still lie about you or not even show you.

Or not registering

"Im against gay marriage"
---- In a homophobic speech X said that he was against fundamental human rights

When you control what everyone sees, they only see what you want them to

"Kill all faggots"
--- In a homophobic speech X said that he was against fundamental human rights, except it validates their narrative

The result is the same

Its a distinction without much of a difference

yes but one is going to legitimize them more than the other

its going to make it harder to rally around that person

They already have the legitimacy

you arnt taking if from them

They have the frame not the legitimacy

this is the status quo

Those who have the frame have the legitimacy

@Zemo not much of a difference in practicality